Chapter 22
Giuseppe Scognamiglio had donned the uniform of the Royal Army very quickly. Having learned of the establishment of the 1st Italian Motorized Grouping from D'Aiazzo, he had already left Naples on the same day of the interview and, at the end of a problematic journey, had presented himself to the Command of the brigade at San Pietro Vernotico in Puglia. As a paratrooper unit has not been reestablished133 , he had been readmitted to service in an infantry battalion of the 67th Regiment. Promoted to captain, he had been assigned to the I office – Information – at the Regimental Command. However, a few days after October 13, the day on which, as expected, the Kingdom of Italy had become co-aggressor134 against the Nazi-Fascists, he had been transferred with a U.S. DC3 aircraft, al
