Mario Caracciolo di Feroleto
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Mario Caracciolo, Baron of Feroleto (Naples, 26 February 1880 – Rome, 21 December 1954) was an Italian general during World War II.
Biography
Caracciolo began his military career as an artillery
Second Lieutenant in 1899, attending the War School of the Royal Italian Army and serving as a staff officer at the command of the General Staff Officer Corps, then at the command of the "Novara" Infantry Brigade and later at the command of the IX Corps.[1][2][3]
He participated in the
First World War as commander of a siege artillery group. After promotion to Colonel he commanded the 13th Artillery Regiment for six years.[1][2]
After promotion to
1st Cavalry Division Eugenio di Savoia. He was then appointed inspector of mobilization in Messina and in 1938 he became commander of the XXI Army Corps in Libya. On 1 January 1940 he was appointed Superior Inspector of Technical Services.[2][3]
From 10 December 1940 to 15 April 1941 he commanded the
Fifth Army in Libya. On 5 September the Fifth Army was dissolved, but it was reformed in Italy in April 1942, with Caracciolo again in command. The new Fifth Army had its headquarters in Florence and later in Viterbo, and was tasked with local and coastal defense in Lazio, Tuscany and Sardinia.[1][2][3][4]
Caracciolo was still in command of the Fifth Army when the
SS, and imprisoned in Verona, Venice and Brescia, where he was tried by the Italian Social Republic’s Special Tribunal and sentenced to death. The sentence was however reduced to a fifteen-year prison term as Caracciolo was a war invalid. He was liberated by the partisans on 25 April 1945.[4][3]
After the war he published several books (E poi? La tragedia dell’Esercito, in 1945; Tradimento italiano o tedesco?, in 1946; Le sette carceri di un generale, in 1948; L'ultima vicenda della V Armata, posthumous) and died in Rome in 1954.[1][2][3][4]
References
- ^ a b c d "Mario Caracciolo di Feroleto". Libero Digiland (in Italian). Retrieved 22 August 2021.
- ^ a b c d e Biography of General Mario Caracciolo di Feroleto at the Wayback Machine (archived 10 November 2010)
- ^ ISBN 9788812000326. Retrieved 22 August 2021.
- ^ a b c "Mario Caracciolo di Feroleto". Associazione Nazionale Partigiani d'Italia (in Italian). 25 July 2010. Retrieved 22 August 2021.
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