Naples ’44

Person · Notable civilian

Salvatore Loreto

Background

A notorious infiltrator and saboteur with the Italian 10th Flotilla MAS.

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In Naples ’44

Lewis finds him dying in the PW ward at Cancello, shot clean through the body; mistaken for his brother, Loreto throws his arms round Lewis’s neck and rambles about their shared childhood as he dies.

Appears in 1 diary entry.

  1. August 3 1944
    Lewis assesses the security risk of holding a wounded, notorious Italian saboteur in a hospital ward run by a nurse he knew previously in Algeria.

    wounded infiltrator/saboteur dying in hospital, mistakes Lewis for his brother

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