Seventy-five years after eight U.S. servicemen were killed during World War II, local Italian and foreign residents came together to honor them.
Little was known about the tragedy until documents were uncovered and a monument was erected near the rebuilt bridge in 2012.Over 1,000 Allied American, Britons, South African and other POWs were on the train locked in about 50 cars being escorted by the retreating Germans. Ten cars were believed to have been destroyed.When we came to Italy, the Italians, good people, helped us.
Some of the escaped POWs were recaptured and put back on trains to Germany and others caught escaping were shot. Historian Jane Kinrade Dethick, who has meticulously researched POWs in Italy, told ABC News that approximately 500 who weren’t wounded or killed escaped. Kinrade Dethick said three weeks earlier the group met an American airman whose plane had been shot down. He, too, was on the run, she said.
The organization run by the Vatican may known the servicemen, and someone in town, perhaps the priest, gave them money to buy food, Dethick believes. "My war is not over,’’ he told ABC News as his book, which recounts life in Italy during World War II, is entitled.
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