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Ignazio Fanni I CONFINI DELL’ORIZZONTE
ISBN 88-8185-828-2 pp. 320 - Oltre 400 foto Euro 30,00 Il volume può essere
acquistato nelle librerie di Cagliari e di Villacidro Ignazio Fanni The volume can directly be acquired in the bookcases of Cagliari and Villacidro or from the author: Ignazio Fanni Via Roma, 17 09039 Villacidro ITALY Tel. + 39 070 932017 ifanni@tiscali.it
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I CONFINI DELL’ORIZZONTE Il titolo riprende una frase del
corrispondente di guerra Mirko Giobbe che, su questo aeroporto scrisse
un articolo su “Le vie dell’aria” del 18 ottobre 1942: - 0 -
- 0 - I CONFINI DELL’ORIZZONTE The immensest airfield of the Sardinia in war 1940 - 1944 the title resumes it a phrase of the correspondent of war Mirko Giobbe that, on this airport wrote an article on "the ways of the air" of 18 October 1942: "E' a field that has the dimensions of the horizon, a lot seems immense and spazioso." In effects the airfield of Villacidro (Trunconi) for engaged surface was immensest of the Sardinia. From this base, and that one not a lot distant of Decimomannu, left the reconnaissances aircraft and the bombers that tried to block the refueling that the Home English Fleet, was strained to carry from Gibilterra to Malta. After the successes it begins them our aviation was not more in a position to contrasting the preponderant Anglo-American forces. At the beginning of 1943 the field was yielded to the German Luftwaffe that was forced to abandoning it some days after the 8 september. To November the Americans arrived and, at the beginning of 1944, also the French of Free France. In Sardinia (Decimomannu and Villacidro) they were allocates all the medium bombers to you B-26 Marauder and from the missions left all here with which the Marauder Americans and French hammered the railway and street bridges of peninsular Italy in order to cut the refueling to the German troops that opposed one courageous resistance to the been left over one of the Anglo-American armys. Finally it does not go forgotten that the Disembarkation in Provenza (Dragoon Operation) was prepared and supported from the missions that left from Villacidro and Decimomannu. The book not only filler the history of the airport but is taken care also of the human aspect that is of the life that these air (Italian and Germans before, Americans and French then) lead to little kilometers from the lived one. Physically therefore near but at the same time therefore distant: "... but we lived, they and we, in two worlds he separates to you from centuries. They dragged themselves in a vegetativa existence, to the margin of the events that as soon as they grazed them... Lì had been the Germans... Replaces to you from the Americans and from the French, that it imports also these aliens will leave to they time... " (Geogre Courtin, on Les Marauders Français) - 0 - Ignazio Fanni is been born to Villacidro in 1943. Graduated in pharmacy, sin from the times of the Grammar school it has nourished an alive interest for the history. After some experiences of study and job to the foreign country, from 1988 he is titular of one of the pharmacies of Villacidro. In the premises of its pharmacy it has prepared the Farmamuseo "Knows Potecarìa", a collection of furnishings, relating tools and instruments "the sanitary art" in a generalized manner and that pharmaceutics in particular. This book is fruit of a search duration nearly five years, of documents and testimonies in arch military Italians, Germans, English, Americans and French to you. The author is successful to put itself in contact with various air that, during according to world-wide conflict, has passed a more or less long period to Villacidro. Some, a lot kindly, have sended photo, per diem or rilasciato testimonies that have contributed to the realization of the book. - 0 -
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