Download or read book Calabrian Americans in the US Military During World War I Volume 5 written by Peter Belmonte and published by . This book was released on 2019-04-27 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Millions of Italians came to the US between 1880 and the eve of World War I. As many as 300,000 of them served in the United States military during the war. Tens of thousands of Calabrians--inhabitants of Calabria, the region that makes up the toe of the Italian boot--came to America in the this so-called Great Migration. Thousands of them served in the US military during that war, and until now no effort has been made to document their history. Historian Peter L Belmonte has written four volumes documenting the military history of over 800 men from the Cosenza area. In this fifth volume, he presents the total of his work on men from the Province of Cosenza, including those featured in previous volumes, in an abbreviated list format.The list contains the names of more than 2,300 men from the Province of Cosenza who served in the U.S. military during World War I. For each man, the list contains name, rank, serial number, unit or organization, home of record, and information as to whether a man was wounded, and other information. Readers will be able to use this list to further their own research.By examining the service of these men, this book lays the foundation for further studies of Italian immigrant soldiers in general, and Calabrians specifically. Their military history highlights the role of the US military; they served in every type of unit from stateside camps to the trenches of France and even to the Siberian wasteland. Many of the men suffered life-changing wounds; others were killed in action.
Download or read book Calabrian americans in the Us Military During World War I written by Peter L. Belmonte and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-09-09 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hundreds of thousands of Calabrians--inhabitants of Calabria, the region that makes up the toe of the Italian boot--came to America in the decades before World War I. Thousands of them served in the US military during that war, and until now no effort has been made to document their history. Historian Peter L Belmonte begins this monumental task by concentrating on the area around the city of Cosenza, the provincial capital of Calabria's northern province. This second volume contains the military history of more than 290 veterans and focuses on immigrants from the villages of Carolei, Castrolibero, Cerisano, Domanico, Lattarico, Mendicino, Montalto Uffugo, Rende, Rota Greca, San Fili, San Marco Argentano, and San Vincenzo La Costa.
Download or read book Calabrian americans in the Us Military During World War I written by Peter L. Belmonte and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-02-17 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Millions of Italians came to the US between 1880 and the eve of World War I. As many as 300,000 of them served in the United States military during the war. Tens of thousands of Calabrians--inhabitants of Calabria, the region that makes up the toe of the Italian boot--came to America in the this so-called Great Migration. Thousands of them served in the US military during that war, and until now no effort has been made to document their history. Historian Peter L Belmonte begins his task by concentrating on the area around the city of Cosenza, the provincial capital of the northern province of Calabria. This case study focuses on one specific group of immigrant soldiers: men who were born in, lived in, or whose family came from the neighboring villages of Marano Marchesato and Marano Principato, province of Cosenza, in the southern Italian region of Calabria. By examining the service of some 134 men, this book lays the foundation for further studies of Italian immigrant soldiers in general, and Calabrians specifically. Their military history highlights the role of the US military; they served in every type of unit from stateside camps to the trenches of France and even to the Siberian wasteland. Many of the men suffered life-changing wounds; their story is told here.
Download or read book Calabrian Americans in the U S Military During World War I written by Peter L Belmonte and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perhaps as many as ten thousand Calabrian-Americans served in the U.S. military during World War I. Historian Peter L. Belmonte has spent more than twenty years researching these men, and he has published more than seven volumes about Calabrians in World War I. This volume contains essays, vignettes, and articles about some of the more interesting aspects of their service. In this book, we read about Calabrian-Americans in U.S. Guard Battalions men who were wounded two or more times, men who served in U.S. Navy Bands, and men whose service spanned the time from before World War I to after World War II. This book is wonderfully illustrated with photographs of many of the men and some of the documents associated with their service. This is the third volume of miscellaneous vignettes about Calabrians in the U.S. military during World War I.
Download or read book Calabrian Americans in the U S Military During World War I written by Peter L Belmonte and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-17 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perhaps as many as ten thousand Calabrian-Americans served in the U.S. military during World War I. Historian Peter L. Belmonte has spent more than twenty years researching these men, and he has published more than five volumes about Calabrians in World War I. This volume contains essays, vignettes, and articles about some of the more interesting aspects of their service. In this book, we read about Calabrian-American officers, teenagers who served, men who served in special units, first-hand accounts of some of the men, and the recorded final moments of some men who were killed in action. Two of the Marine veterans enlisted before the war and served in China, Haiti, Mexico, and the Dominican Republic; their stories are fully told here. This book is wonderfully illustrated with photographs of many of the men and some of the documents associated with their service.
Download or read book Calabrian Americans in the Us Military During World War I Volume 3 written by Peter Belmonte and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-01-02 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the third volume in a series documenting the US World War I military service of immigrants from Calabria, Italy. Historian Peter L. Belmonte has been researching these men for twenty years and now he presents the fruit of his on-going work. This volume contains the military service records of about 280 men from the province of Cosenza, including the villages of Aprigliano, Casole Bruzio, Castiglione Cosentino, Cellara, Dipignano, Figline Vegliaturo, Lappano, Mangone, Paterno Calabro, Pedace, Piane Crati, Pietrafitta, Rovito, San Pietro in Guarano, Serra Pedace, Spezzano Grande, Spezzano Piccolo, Trenta, and Zumpano. In addition there are a few men from villages covered in previous volumes, such as Carolei, Castrolibero, Cerisano, Domanico, Lattarico, Marano Marchesato, Marano Principato, Mendicino, Rende, Rota Greca, San Fili, San Marco Argentano, and San Vincenzo la Costa.
Download or read book Calabrian Americans in the Us Military During World War I Volume 4 written by Peter L. Belmonte and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-06-07 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thousands of Calabrian immigrants served in the United States military during World War I, but their story has not yet been told. Historian Peter L. Belmonte has undertaken that task. This book shows over 70 Calabrian-American soldiers in uniform during the war, along with short military biographies of each man. Coupled with his first three volumes, this book goes a long way to uncovering the story of a group of men from a common region who fought for their adopted country during a cataclysmic war a century ago.
Download or read book Calabrian Americans in the U S Military During World War I written by Peter L Belmonte and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-09-30 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perhaps as many as ten thousand Calabrian-Americans served in the U.S. military during World War I. Historian Peter L. Belmonte has spent more than twenty years researching these men, and he has published more than five volumes about Calabrians in World War I. This volume contains essays, vignettes, and articles about some of the more interesting aspects of their service. In this book, we read about Calabrian-Americans in the famed Lost Battalion, men who had two periods of service during the war, men who were prisoners of war, and a father and son who served during the war. We also read about deserters and delinquents, trench mortar units, and butchery and bakery units. This book is wonderfully illustrated with photographs of many of the men and some of the documents associated with their service.
Download or read book Chicago Area Italians in World War I written by Peter L. Belmonte and published by America Through Time. This book was released on 2019-11-25 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thousands of immigrants from the southern Italian region of Calabria came to the Chicago-area in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. As many as 8,000 of them served in the U.S. military during World War I, and until now no effort has been made to document their story. Historian Peter L. Belmonte has been researching these men using military, immigration, naturalization, census, family, and other records for more than twenty years. This book recounts the military history of more than 380 men from the province of Cosenza, Calabria. Their history highlights the role of the U.S. military in World War I; they served in every type of unit, from stateside camps to the trenches of France and even to the frozen wasteland of Siberia. Some of them earned medals for bravery. Many of the men suffered life-changing wounds, and some made the supreme sacrifice. Long without a voice in historical works, their story is finally told here.
Download or read book Honest and Faithful Service written by Peter L Belmonte and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hundreds of thousands of immigrants came from the southern Italian region of Calabria to the United States beginning in the 1870s. Many of the men served in the United States military during World War I, but little is known of other men who served before the Great War. This book examines the military history of more than 100 Calabrian men who served in the U.S. military beginning in 1880. Their service continued into World War II. They served in the Indian Wars in the western frontier, including service with the famed 7th Cavalry Regiment in the 1880s and 1890s. They served during the Spanish-American War, including U.S. Navy service in Havana Harbor. One man was wounded in action during the Philippine-American War in the early 1900s. Many served in Coast Artillery, Infantry, and Cavalry units. Those who enlisted in the National Guard served during the Mexican border crisis in 1916 and 1917. Many continued service into World War I; some were wounded in action and three were killed in action. This book tells the story, long forgotten, of these men.
Download or read book Italian Americans in World War II written by Peter L. Belmonte and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2001 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the first-hand accounts and stories of Italian World War II Veterans who answered the call to serve their country, despite being deemed Enemy Aliens by their own government. At the beginning of World War II, Italian citizens living in the United States were referred to as Enemy Aliens. Yet hundreds of young Italian Americans flocked to recruiting stations, and over 500,000-perhaps as many as 1.5 million-served in the military during the war. Despite the difficulties they faced, including the possibility of having to fight against Italians, countless Italian Americans received decorations for bravery, fourteen of whom received the Medal of Honor. Italian Americans in World War II offers their stories, which, for the most part, have yet to be told. Belmonte interviewed almost 50 Italian-American veterans of World War II, from all branches and types of service. Stories of daily life, food, equipment, and training from soldiers, sailors, and airmen are captured. You'll read personal tales about how survivors of D-Day, Iwo Jima, Tarawa, Okinawa, and The Battle of the Bulge felt about entering combat. This fitting tribute also includes photographs from this period in history, bringing the men's stories to life.
Download or read book United States Army Depot Brigades in World War I written by Alexander F. Barnes and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2021-12-13 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much has been written about the exploits of the American Expeditionary Forces, the men and women sent overseas to fight during World War I, but much less is known about the two million who served in the Army without ever setting foot on foreign soil. This book examines the history of depot brigades, development battalions, U.S. Guards units, Students' Army Training Corps, and other "forgotten" troops charged with training soldiers, guarding installations, and performing myriad other duties. It also chronicles the service of men like actor Jimmy Cagney, author F. Scott Fitzgerald, movie director Frank Capra, children's author Ludwig Bemelmans, and the two million others who served in the United States during the war. At the time, many of these men considered themselves unfortunate cast-offs, doomed to spend the war safe at home while their friends served in combat overseas. But, in the end, it was largely because of them that America could field an effective fighting force.
Download or read book Army History written by and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cassino to the Alps written by Ernest F. Fisher and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sicily and the Surrender of Italy written by Lieutenant Albert Garland and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-07-16 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Includes maps) This volume, the second to be published in the Mediterranean Theater of Operations subseries, takes up where George F. Howe's Northwest Africa: Seizing the Initiative in the West left off. It integrates the Sicilian Campaign with the complicated negotiations involved in the surrender of Italy. The Sicilian Campaign was as complex as the negotiations, and is equally instructive. On the Allied side it included American, British, and Canadian soldiers as well as some Tabors of Goums; major segments of the U.S. Army Air Forces and of the Royal Air Force; and substantial contingents of the U.S. Navy and the Royal Navy. Opposing the Allies were ground troops and air forces of Italy and Germany, and the Italian Navy. The fighting included a wide variety of operations: the largest amphibious assault of World War II; parachute jumps and air landings; extended overland marches; tank battles; precise and remarkably successful naval gunfire support of troops on shore; agonizing struggles for ridge tops; and extensive and skillful artillery support. Sicily was a testing ground for the U.S. soldier, fighting beside the more experienced troops of the British Eighth Army, and there the American soldier showed what he could do. The negotiations involved in Italy's surrender were rivaled in complexity and delicacy only by those leading up to the Korean armistice. The relationship of tactical to diplomatic activity is one of the most instructive and interesting features of this volume. Military men were required to double as diplomats and to play both roles with skill.
Download or read book My Two Italies written by Joseph Luzzi and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A child of Italian immigrants and scholar of Italian literature paints an intimate portrait that blends together history and the unusual to show how his 'two Italies' join and clash in unexpected ways.
Download or read book Italian Americans written by Eric Martone and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2016-12-12 with total page 601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The entire Italian American experience—from America's earliest days through the present—is now available in a single volume. This wide-ranging work relates the entire saga of the Italian-American experience from immigration through assimilation to achievement. The book highlights the enormous contributions that Italian Americans—the fourth largest European ethnic group in the United States—have made to the professions, politics, academy, arts, and popular culture of America. Going beyond familiar names and stories, it also captures the essence of everyday life for Italian Americans as they established communities and interacted with other ethnic groups. In this single volume, readers will be able to explore why Italians came to America, where they settled, and how their distinctive identity was formed. A diverse array of entries that highlight the breadth of this experience, as well as the multitude of ways in which Italian Americans have influenced U.S. history and culture, are presented in five thematic sections. Featured primary documents range from a 1493 letter from Christopher Columbus announcing his discovery to excerpts from President Barack Obama's 2011 speech to the National Italian American Foundation. Readers will come away from this book with a broader understanding of and greater appreciation for Italian Americans' contributions to the United States.
