Dante Di Nanni (Turin, 27 March 1925 - Turin, May 18, 1944) was an Italian partisan, who was awarded the Gold Medal of Valor.
was born into a family of immigrants from Apulia; factory in the city, he continued his studies at night school. At the outbreak of World War II he enlisted in the Air Force, where he remained until 'September 8, 1943, when the Armistice was announced Cassibile signed the day 3.Abbandonato the army, took refuge in the mountains of Piedmont, where he joined one of the first partisan bands, Boves, led by Ignazio Vian. Dispersed after the formation of a broad attack the divisions of SS Joachim Peiper, which also carried out a massacre just Boves, he returned to Turin, where he enlisted in the GAP of John Fish.
On May 17, 1944, along with fellow fish, Bravin and Valentino, he made an attack on a radio station on Stura, which disrupt communications on Radio London, before you toss, the command Gappisti, disarmed and grace The nine soldiers garrisoned with the promise that they would not have raised the alarm. However, I gappisti are betrayed and are surprised by an entire department enemy. In clash are all injured, Bravin and Valentino will be captured and later hanged, July 22 in Turin with Vian, also captured in the meantime. However, Fish was able to rescue Di Nanni, seriously wounded by seven bullets in the abdomen, head and legs, bringing the first in a farmhouse and then into the base of Via San Bernardino 14 in Turin. You will be visited by a doctor who will advise the antifascist immediate hospitalization. Fish, who left to arrange transport on his return he saw the house surrounded by fascists and the Germans, alerted by a spia.Nonostante the injuries sustained, Di Nanni barricaded himself in the apartment and engaged in a lengthy gun battle with Nazi troops, well supported by an armored car and a tank. Having succeeded in eliminating several enemy soldiers, even managed to knock out the two armored vehicles loaded with TNT and throwing hand grenades from his balcony. The siege lasted almost three hours, and once the ammunition, but not to surrender alive, renghiera went towards the balcony and, after greeting the crowd with a clenched fist and shouting "Long live Italy", he fell in empty.
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