26 June 2015
Rotary Speakers - Last in a great year
An Unpublished Account ?
One of the most amusing accounts received by Salv Stellini was a letter written by a Gladiator pilot: "I was on a reconnaissance flight towards the end of the war (WW2) when my Gladiator started to give me trouble, being too far from Malta I landed on the nearest Island Lampadusa, expecting the worst. When I landed, the commandant of the Island meet me as I got out of the plane and before I could say anything, he surrendered to me, this included his contingency of 3000 troops and part of the Italian Navy".
The many letters, over 1500, received gave similar fascinating unpublished accounts of people's experiences in the War.