Word: rossettis
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Exactly ten days before the end of World War I, two Italian naval officers named Raffaele Rossetti and Raffaele Paolucci, dressed in watertight rubber suits with air pouches at chest and back, and headgear shaped to look (in the sea) like drifting barrels, entered the waters outside Pola Harbor with what they called their "machine." It was a converted torpedo the forward part of which consisted of two "war heads," metal cylinders each filled with 400 pounds of TNT, and equipped with both clockwork and contact detonators. The war heads were detachable from the main body of the machine...
...Both Rossetti and Paolucci escaped unhurt. They are still heroes in Italy...
...York Paul W. Cook Lorraine Salsmen, Radcliffe James F. Cooney Mary Frances Northrup, Hopedale Gilbert Corwin Elaine McCune, Bradford Junior College Gerard H. Coster, Jr. Bernice Epstein, Brooklyn, N. Y. Kieran H. Culliton Jean MacLaughlin, Brimmer-May School Lewis S. Dabney Joan Edmonds, New York Willard Dalrymple Christina Rossetti, Rye Beach David J. Davis Mary Marsh, Wellesley Henry H. Dearing, Jr. Rena Zary, Cleveland Wheeler Dennis, Jr. Peggy Lewis, Packer Institute John W. Dixon Audrey Armstrong, Pembroke Donald H. Eldredge, Jr. Betty McClure, Wellesley Robert Ellery Fanny Gassett, Perkins Olaf H. Fernald Lucille Ogden, Wellesley Philip St. G. Field Becky...