BEST 1945 Stars Stripes WW II newspaper w DEATH of MUSSOLINI - printed in ITALY

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BEST 1945 Stars Stripes WW II newspaper w DEATH of MUSSOLINI - printed in ITALY:
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BEST 1945 Stars Stripes WW II newspaperannouncing the DEATH of MUSSOLINI at the hands of Italian Partizans at Lake Cuomo - This isue was printed in ITALY

Please visit our store at the link directly below for HUNDREDS of HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS on sale or at PHOTO----- COMPLETE ORIGINAL American Armed Forces newspaper,the Stars and Stripes(Mediterranean Edition, printed in Italy) dated April 30, 1945.

This issue has a \"first report\" of the DEATH of ITALIAN DICTATOR Benito Mussolini at the hands of Italian Partizans who shot him at Lake Cuomo as he tried to flee the country with his mistress Clara Petacci.

Grea to have this major WW II event in an English language newspaper published IN ITALY itself.

The death of Benito Mussolini, the Italian fascist dictator, occurred on 28 April 1945, in the final days of World War II in Europe, when he was summarily executed by anti-fascist partisans in the small village of Giulino di Mezzegra in northern Italy. The \"official\" version of events is that Mussolini was shot by Walter Audisio, a communist partisan who used the nom de guerre of \"Colonel Valerio\". However, since the end of the war, the circumstances of Mussolini\'s death, and the identity of his killer, have been subjects of continuing confusion, dispute and controversy in Italy.

In 1940, Mussolini took his country into World War II on the side of Nazi Germany but met with military failure. By 1945, he was reduced to being the leader of a German puppet state in northern Italy and was faced with the Allied advance from the south and an increasingly violent internal conflict with the partisans. In April 1945, with the Allies breaking through the last German defences in northern Italy and a general uprising of the partisans taking hold in the cities, Mussolini\'s position became untenable. On 25 April he fled Milan, where he had been based, and tried to escape to the Swiss border. He and his mistress, Claretta Petacci, were captured on 27 April by local partisans near the village of Dongo on Lake Como. Mussolini and Petacci were shot the following afternoon, two days before Adolf Hitler\'s suicide.

The bodies of Mussolini and Petacci were taken to Milan and left in a suburban square, the Piazzale Loreto, for a large angry crowd to insult and physically abuse. They were then hung upside down from a metal girder above a service station on the square. Initially, Mussolini was buried in an unmarked grave but, in 1946, his body was dug up and stolen by fascist supporters. Four months later it was recovered by the authorities who then kept it hidden for the next eleven years. Eventually, in 1957, his remains were allowed to be interred in the Mussolini family crypt in his home town of Predappio. His tomb has become a place of pilgrimage for neo-fascists and the anniversary of his death is marked by neo-fascist rallies.

In the post-war years, the \"official\" version of Mussolini\'s death has been questioned in Italy (but, generally, not internationally) in a way that has drawn comparison with the John F. Kennedy assassination conspiracy theories. Journalists, politicians and historians, doubting the veracity of Audisio\'s account, have put forward a wide variety of theories and speculation as to how Mussolini died and who was responsible. At least twelve different individuals have, at various times, been claimed to be the killer. These have included Luigi Longo and Sandro Pertini who subsequently became Secretary-General of the Italian Communist Party and President of Italy respectively. Several writers believe that Mussolini\'s death was part of a British special forces operation. The aim was supposedly to retrieve compromising \"secret agreements\" and correspondence with Winston Churchill that Mussolini had allegedly been carrying when he was captured. However, the \"official\" explanation, with Audisio as Mussolini\'s executioner, remains the most credible narrative.

Stars and Stripes is the newspaper published for the United States Armed Forces overseas. On 9 November 1861, during the Civil War, soldiers of the Illinois 11th, 18th, and 29th Regiments, after forcing the Confederates south, set up camp in Bloomfield, Missouri. Upon finding the newspaper office empty, they decided to print a newspaper for their expedition, relating the troop\'s activities. They called it the Stars and Stripes. Stars and Stripes was then an eight-page weekly, which reached a peak of 526,000 readers, relying considerably on the improvisational efforts of its staff to get it printed in France and to distribute it to U.S. troops.

In World War II, the newspaper was printed in several editions in several operating theaters. Again, both newspapermen in uniform and young soldiers, some of whom would later become important journalists, filled the staffs and showed zeal and talent in publishing and delivering the paper on time. Some of the editions were assembled and printed very close to the front in order to get the latest information to the most troops.

The newspaper is the main printed source of news at the installations in Europe and Mideast and East Asia. Stars and Stripes has expanded to an average of 40–48 pages each day and is still published in tabloid format, reminiscent of many British dailies. The newspaper employs civilian reporters, and U.S. military senior noncommissioned officers as reporters, at a number of locations around the world.

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