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On this day, 29 September 1943, 11 year old partisan Gennaro Capuozzo was killed in action fighting against German Nazi forces in Naples. He was taking part in the four-day insurrection in the city against Nazi occupation, and was killed while throwing handgrenades at German tanks from the balcony of a school, the Filippini Sisters’ Institute. He was killed alongside a machine gunner who was by his side. He was posthumously awarded a gold medal for military valour.
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