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Lett, Gordon
Gordon Lett
Ernest Gordon Appleford Lett
E G A Lett
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56 items. The collection concerns Major Ernest Gordon Appleford Lett, DSO (1910-1989, 50112), a British Army officer and partisan leader in Italy. He was taken prisoner after the fall of Tobruk and detained in different camps in Italy. After the September 1943 armistice, rather than re-joining Allied forces, he took to the mountains and established contacts with Resistance forces active in the Apennines between Liguria and Toscana. Lett founded and led the Battaglione Internazionale, a multinational unit that successfully engaged Black Brigades and German units. Later, when reliable lines of communication were secured, supplies were dropped by air and the Battaglione was supplemented by Special Operations Executive personnel. Gordon Lett was relieved by Major John Henderson in March 1945. After the war, Lett was awarded the DSO and received the Medaglia Argento al valor militare.
The collection consists of a selection of Gordon Lett's papers and official correspondence with key figures of the local Resistance movement. They include Colonnello Mario Fontana (‘Cossu’, or ‘Turchi’), Comandante Luciano Scotti (‘Vittorio’ or ‘Gonzaga’), Commissario Politico Anselmo Corsini ('Ambrosio', or ‘Max’) and Mario Fortelli, a lawyer acting as liaison officer with the local Allied Military Mission.
Documents consist of military assessments, notes on air drops, a ciphers book, a draft of a radio message sent via clandestine radio operators, and a request for tactical bombing. The collection contains notes on an aircraft crash, the military funeral and the subsequent burial of the aircrew. A specific subset includes correspondence, plans and reports about the construction of an improvised landing strip for Allied aircraft operating behind enemy lines.
All documents were deposited at the La Spezia City Council and then re-housed in 1972 at the Istituto spezzino per la Storia della Resistenza e dell’Età Contemporanea, where they have been preserved ever since. The selection published here has been curated by Tiziano Vernazza.
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VOLONTARI DELLA LIBERTÀ
COMANDO 1° DIVISIONE LIGURIA 9/11/1944
Al Magg. Gordon Lett
Caro Gordo[n],
Mi sono recato a colloquio con il comandante la compagnia alpina dislocata al santuario di Valva e non ha potuto parlare col comandante della I° Divisione principalmente col comandante [indecipherable words] perché già al fronte per ricognizione.
L’esito del colloquio è in sintesi questo: gli uomini di truppe ed alcuni [undecipherable words] vi li sarebbero già disposti a venire con noi.
Il comandante la compagnia certo tenente Bernardi è invece nettamente contrario perché in perfetta malafede.
Occorre quindi a parte le misure militari che sono state concordate [ 2indecipherable words] e Vingola, richiedere per XXX martedì p.v. ( 14 c.m.) un bombardamento [2 indecipherable words] di Velva a mezzo del seguente messaggio “compagnia alpini M. Rosa [indecipherable word] caposaldo santuario Velva est in procinto passare nostre file stop Necessita però [indecipherable word] celeramente tale movimento a mezzo azioni militari stop Richiede azione aerea seguita immediata(m)ente da nostro attacco stop Orario azione tempo permettendolo tra [indecipherable word] le (8) et 8.30 antimeridiane stop Cessazione bombardamento data da fumata lanciata [3 indecipherable words] che dovranno continuare a volare per pochi minuti su c(i)elo località [2 indecipherable words] (cento): conferma stop Comandante 1° Divisione Colonello Turchi(”).
Potete contemporaneamente comunicare vostro quartier generale che alpini divisione Monte Rosa sono in via trasferimento su zona fronte Castelnuovo et che comandante 2° Regg. alpini è già partito per ricognizione linee.
Necessita quindi intensificare sorveglianza traffico su via Aurelia e in particolare che qualche apparecchio sorvoli zona anche di notte perchè [sic] tale movimento avviene normalmente in tale ore.
Comando Divisione M. Rosa trovasi attualmente a Pallerone anzi tra Aulla e Pallerone in una villa situata a Nord del cimitero.
Località di transito e di sosta per formazioni dirette al fronte sono Aulla Villafranca.
Itinerario Aulla, Fivizzano Equi, Castelnuovo Garfagnana.
Si rammenta la n(e)cessità intervento aviazione su Borghetto Vara.
Bombardamento effettuato su Linea Spezia Chiavari ha interrotto la linea a Monte_ Rosso e Chiavari.
La prego voler far presente l’opportunità di evitare bombardamenti su località che non hanno importanza militare.
Cordiali Saluti
Col. Turchi
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ita
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Military assessment and request for aerial bombing
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Report from Colonnello Mario Fontana to Major Gordon Lett with a military assessment of the Liguria region detailing the positions of enemy units. Requests aerial bombings to support partisan forces in action.
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Italy. Comitato di Liberazione Nazionale. I Divisione Liguria
Mario Fontana
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1944-11-09
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One-page typewritten letter
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1944-11-09
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Tiziano Vernazza
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isrlaspezia AMb9f2 BIS 1177
Resistance
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Lett, Gordon
Gordon Lett
Ernest Gordon Appleford Lett
E G A Lett
Description
An account of the resource
56 items. The collection concerns Major Ernest Gordon Appleford Lett, DSO (1910-1989, 50112), a British Army officer and partisan leader in Italy. He was taken prisoner after the fall of Tobruk and detained in different camps in Italy. After the September 1943 armistice, rather than re-joining Allied forces, he took to the mountains and established contacts with Resistance forces active in the Apennines between Liguria and Toscana. Lett founded and led the Battaglione Internazionale, a multinational unit that successfully engaged Black Brigades and German units. Later, when reliable lines of communication were secured, supplies were dropped by air and the Battaglione was supplemented by Special Operations Executive personnel. Gordon Lett was relieved by Major John Henderson in March 1945. After the war, Lett was awarded the DSO and received the Medaglia Argento al valor militare.
The collection consists of a selection of Gordon Lett's papers and official correspondence with key figures of the local Resistance movement. They include Colonnello Mario Fontana (‘Cossu’, or ‘Turchi’), Comandante Luciano Scotti (‘Vittorio’ or ‘Gonzaga’), Commissario Politico Anselmo Corsini ('Ambrosio', or ‘Max’) and Mario Fortelli, a lawyer acting as liaison officer with the local Allied Military Mission.
Documents consist of military assessments, notes on air drops, a ciphers book, a draft of a radio message sent via clandestine radio operators, and a request for tactical bombing. The collection contains notes on an aircraft crash, the military funeral and the subsequent burial of the aircrew. A specific subset includes correspondence, plans and reports about the construction of an improvised landing strip for Allied aircraft operating behind enemy lines.
All documents were deposited at the La Spezia City Council and then re-housed in 1972 at the Istituto spezzino per la Storia della Resistenza e dell’Età Contemporanea, where they have been preserved ever since. The selection published here has been curated by Tiziano Vernazza.
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VOLONTARI DELLA LIBERTÀ
COMANDO Ia DIVISIONE LIGURIA
Pret. N.
Li 7 novembre 1944
AL MAGG. GORDON LETT
Si comunica un elenco di stranieri che prestano servizio presso la colonna G.L., II° Btg. VI° Compagnia, avendo disertato dalle FF. AA. Germaniche.:
Umbresht Andrea di Eugenio = Francese
Mieseh [deleted] Luis di Giuseppe = “
Bauer Hermann di Hermann = Iugoslavo
Hanauer Francesee di Antonio = Cecoslovacco
Willj Pagel di Riccardo = Austriaco
Navet Jacque di Carlo = Francese
IL V. COMMISSARIO POLITICO
IL COMANDANTE LA DIVISIONE
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ita
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Foreign partisans fighting with the Resistance in Liguria
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Note to Major Gordon Lett regarding French, Yugoslav, Czechoslovak, Austrian, and French personnel who have deserted the German army and have joined the Resistance in Liguria.
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Italy. Comitato di Liberazione Nazionale. I Divisione Liguria
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1944-11-07
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One-page typewritten letter
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1944-11-07
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Tiziano Vernazza
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This content is property of the Istituto spezzino per la Storia della Resistenza e dell’Età Contemporanea which has kindly granted the International Bomber Command Centre Digital Archive a royalty-free permission to publish it. It has been published here ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre.
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isrlaspezia AMb9f2 BIS 1175
Resistance
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Lett, Gordon
Gordon Lett
Ernest Gordon Appleford Lett
E G A Lett
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An account of the resource
56 items. The collection concerns Major Ernest Gordon Appleford Lett, DSO (1910-1989, 50112), a British Army officer and partisan leader in Italy. He was taken prisoner after the fall of Tobruk and detained in different camps in Italy. After the September 1943 armistice, rather than re-joining Allied forces, he took to the mountains and established contacts with Resistance forces active in the Apennines between Liguria and Toscana. Lett founded and led the Battaglione Internazionale, a multinational unit that successfully engaged Black Brigades and German units. Later, when reliable lines of communication were secured, supplies were dropped by air and the Battaglione was supplemented by Special Operations Executive personnel. Gordon Lett was relieved by Major John Henderson in March 1945. After the war, Lett was awarded the DSO and received the Medaglia Argento al valor militare.
The collection consists of a selection of Gordon Lett's papers and official correspondence with key figures of the local Resistance movement. They include Colonnello Mario Fontana (‘Cossu’, or ‘Turchi’), Comandante Luciano Scotti (‘Vittorio’ or ‘Gonzaga’), Commissario Politico Anselmo Corsini ('Ambrosio', or ‘Max’) and Mario Fortelli, a lawyer acting as liaison officer with the local Allied Military Mission.
Documents consist of military assessments, notes on air drops, a ciphers book, a draft of a radio message sent via clandestine radio operators, and a request for tactical bombing. The collection contains notes on an aircraft crash, the military funeral and the subsequent burial of the aircrew. A specific subset includes correspondence, plans and reports about the construction of an improvised landing strip for Allied aircraft operating behind enemy lines.
All documents were deposited at the La Spezia City Council and then re-housed in 1972 at the Istituto spezzino per la Storia della Resistenza e dell’Età Contemporanea, where they have been preserved ever since. The selection published here has been curated by Tiziano Vernazza.
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VOLONTARI DELLA LIBERTÀ
COMANDO DELLA IV ZONA OPERATIVA
N. [undecifrable] di prot.
Lì 22 febbraio 1945
OGGETTO: lanci
AL COMANDO ALLEATO ( Capitano Leng )
Si prega di volere insistere perché avvenga al più presto il lancio per il comando di zona nella località prescelta vicino ad Antessio.
Il lancio avvenga per il materiale richiesto, principalmente per quanto riguarda gli esplosivi per sabotaggi, compreso matite esplosive, babi(y), draps e mine per interruzioni ferroviarie.
Se possibile, richiede anche il lancio di cartucce per mitragliatrici S. Etienne.
Salvo incidenti, sono previste le seguenti riunioni:
Giorno 26 : riunione a Coloretta coi rappresentanti di Pontremoli,
“ 27 : ispezione alla compagnia Tonino a M di Lama;
“ 28: ispezione al Btg. Val di Vara a Borseda;
“ 1/3: ispezione alla Vanni ed alla cp. Giovanni Pagani alla Pieve;
“ 2/3 : ispezione alla Brigata Gramsci ed alla V^ cp. (Ameglio) a Calabria;
IL COMMISSARIO POLITICO IL COMANDANTE LA ZONA
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ita
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Request for guerrilla warfare material
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Colonnello Mario Fontana requests Captain Leng to send via air drops material for guerrilla warfare: explosive pencils ('matite esplosive'), booby traps, explosives, demolition charges for railway sabotage, plus Saint Étienne machine gun cartridges. Details forthcoming meetings scheduled in the area.
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Italy. Comitato di Liberazione Nazionale. IV zona operativa
Mario Fontana
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1945-02-22
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1945-02-22
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One-page typewritten letter
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Tiziano Vernazza
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This content is property of the Istituto spezzino per la Storia della Resistenza e dell’Età Contemporanea which has kindly granted the International Bomber Command Centre Digital Archive a royalty-free permission to publish it. It has been published here ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre.
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isrlaspezia AMb8f4 BIS 1015
Resistance
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Lett, Gordon
Gordon Lett
Ernest Gordon Appleford Lett
E G A Lett
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An account of the resource
56 items. The collection concerns Major Ernest Gordon Appleford Lett, DSO (1910-1989, 50112), a British Army officer and partisan leader in Italy. He was taken prisoner after the fall of Tobruk and detained in different camps in Italy. After the September 1943 armistice, rather than re-joining Allied forces, he took to the mountains and established contacts with Resistance forces active in the Apennines between Liguria and Toscana. Lett founded and led the Battaglione Internazionale, a multinational unit that successfully engaged Black Brigades and German units. Later, when reliable lines of communication were secured, supplies were dropped by air and the Battaglione was supplemented by Special Operations Executive personnel. Gordon Lett was relieved by Major John Henderson in March 1945. After the war, Lett was awarded the DSO and received the Medaglia Argento al valor militare.
The collection consists of a selection of Gordon Lett's papers and official correspondence with key figures of the local Resistance movement. They include Colonnello Mario Fontana (‘Cossu’, or ‘Turchi’), Comandante Luciano Scotti (‘Vittorio’ or ‘Gonzaga’), Commissario Politico Anselmo Corsini ('Ambrosio', or ‘Max’) and Mario Fortelli, a lawyer acting as liaison officer with the local Allied Military Mission.
Documents consist of military assessments, notes on air drops, a ciphers book, a draft of a radio message sent via clandestine radio operators, and a request for tactical bombing. The collection contains notes on an aircraft crash, the military funeral and the subsequent burial of the aircrew. A specific subset includes correspondence, plans and reports about the construction of an improvised landing strip for Allied aircraft operating behind enemy lines.
All documents were deposited at the La Spezia City Council and then re-housed in 1972 at the Istituto spezzino per la Storia della Resistenza e dell’Età Contemporanea, where they have been preserved ever since. The selection published here has been curated by Tiziano Vernazza.
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COMANDO DELLA 4° ZONA OPERATIVA
14 gennaio 1945
AL MAGGIORE GORDON LETT
Caro Gordon,
Come d’accordo, ho dato disposizioni affinché il materiale raccolto durante i lanci sia messo a disposizione del personale inglese il quale sceglierà quello occorrente.
Credo che non si dovranno più lamentare incidenti.
Ritengo opportuno però metterla al corrente di alcune voci giunte a proposito di lanci.
Pare che il personale inglese abbia distribuito numerosi oggetti di vestiario alla popolazione civile non solo di Rossano, ma anche di Zignago. Questo fatto, oltre a creare malcontento tra i partigiani che non sono ancora riusciti ad avere il necessario per coprirsi, impedisce al Comando di portare a termine le indagini atte a rintracciare il vestiario rubato durante il lancio, non potendosi più stabilire se gli oggetti in possesso dei borghesi arrestati sono stati rubati o sono stati ricevuti in dono.
Le sa inoltre quanti fastidi abbiamo avuti per la distribuzione dei paracadute alle famiglie bisognose e danneggiate dai rastrellamenti. Se ora si distribuiscono i paracadute ai primi che càpitano, non si fa che aumentare il malcontento tra i sinistrati, ai quali avevamo promesso il nostro aiuto appena possibile.
Io sarei ben felice di vedere tutta la popolazione delle nostre zone rifornita di vestiario e di altra roba, ma credo sia intendimento di tutti vestire prima i patriotti [sic].
La prego pertanto di voler spiegare quanto le ho esposto al personale inglese da Lei dipendente.
Cordiali Saluti
(Cossu)
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ita
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Equipment handed out by British servicemen to Italian partisans
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Colonnello Mario Fontana reports to Major Gordon Lett about air drops and various pieces of equipment handed out by British servicemen to Italian partisans. Complains about the situation, stressing that is now impossible to tell apart what has been stolen and what legitimately handed out. Mentions previous issues following the distribution of parachutes to civilians, and points out the necessity to prioritise combatants.
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Italy. Comitato di Liberazione Nazionale. IV zona operativa
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1945-01-14
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One-page typewritten letter
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1945-01-14
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Tiziano Vernazza
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This content is property of the Istituto spezzino per la Storia della Resistenza e dell’Età Contemporanea which has kindly granted the International Bomber Command Centre Digital Archive a royalty-free permission to publish it. It has been published here ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre.
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isrlaspezia AMb4f3 BIS 1002
Resistance
-
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Lett, Gordon
Gordon Lett
Ernest Gordon Appleford Lett
E G A Lett
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56 items. The collection concerns Major Ernest Gordon Appleford Lett, DSO (1910-1989, 50112), a British Army officer and partisan leader in Italy. He was taken prisoner after the fall of Tobruk and detained in different camps in Italy. After the September 1943 armistice, rather than re-joining Allied forces, he took to the mountains and established contacts with Resistance forces active in the Apennines between Liguria and Toscana. Lett founded and led the Battaglione Internazionale, a multinational unit that successfully engaged Black Brigades and German units. Later, when reliable lines of communication were secured, supplies were dropped by air and the Battaglione was supplemented by Special Operations Executive personnel. Gordon Lett was relieved by Major John Henderson in March 1945. After the war, Lett was awarded the DSO and received the Medaglia Argento al valor militare.
The collection consists of a selection of Gordon Lett's papers and official correspondence with key figures of the local Resistance movement. They include Colonnello Mario Fontana (‘Cossu’, or ‘Turchi’), Comandante Luciano Scotti (‘Vittorio’ or ‘Gonzaga’), Commissario Politico Anselmo Corsini ('Ambrosio', or ‘Max’) and Mario Fortelli, a lawyer acting as liaison officer with the local Allied Military Mission.
Documents consist of military assessments, notes on air drops, a ciphers book, a draft of a radio message sent via clandestine radio operators, and a request for tactical bombing. The collection contains notes on an aircraft crash, the military funeral and the subsequent burial of the aircrew. A specific subset includes correspondence, plans and reports about the construction of an improvised landing strip for Allied aircraft operating behind enemy lines.
All documents were deposited at the La Spezia City Council and then re-housed in 1972 at the Istituto spezzino per la Storia della Resistenza e dell’Età Contemporanea, where they have been preserved ever since. The selection published here has been curated by Tiziano Vernazza.
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Caro Mario,
Lei prego a mandare al R.T. di Cesare il messaggio seguente, per trasmettere subito alla 5a Armata. E urgentissimo, e tratta di un ufficiale Inglese ( il Capitano Medico ) chi é partito stamatt[ina] per la linea, con informazione importante, per la 5a Armata e nostro Q.G.
“NR ONE NINE.STP. FOR MAJOR MACINTOSH RPT MACINTOSH STP. CAPTAIN LLOYD ROBERTS RPT. LLOYD ROBERTS LEFT TODAY RO CROSS LINE.STP SHOULD [DELETED] REPORT TO Y YOU DAY TWELFTH.STP. MESSAGE NR ONE FOUR SEVEN OF TWO NINE OCT RPT ONE FOUR SEVEN OF TWO NINE OCT ADDRESSED TO BLUNDELL MISSION REFERS .STP.REGARDS LETT.STP.”
Se Lei abbia qualche informazione per mandare laggiu, un’altra squadra parte domani mattina. Si deve mandarmi le lettere stasera. Se c’é un pò di carta da scrivere per la macchina, sarei molto riconoscente.
Gordon Lett Major
Rapp: Comando Alleato
9 II 44
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eng
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Hard copy of a radio message prepared by Major Gordon Lett for the Fifth Army Headquarters: "Captain Lloyd Roberts, a medical officer, left today to cross enemy lines with important intelligence".
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Lloyd Roberts to cross enemy lines
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Italy. Comitato di Liberazione Nazionale. Allied Military Liaison Mission
Gordon Lett
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1944-11-09
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One-page typewritten letter
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1944-11-09
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Tiziano Vernazza
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This content is property of the Istituto spezzino per la Storia della Resistenza e dell’Età Contemporanea which has kindly granted the International Bomber Command Centre Digital Archive a royalty-free permission to publish it. It has been published here ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre.
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isrlaspezia AMb4f3 320
Resistance
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Lett, Gordon
Gordon Lett
Ernest Gordon Appleford Lett
E G A Lett
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56 items. The collection concerns Major Ernest Gordon Appleford Lett, DSO (1910-1989, 50112), a British Army officer and partisan leader in Italy. He was taken prisoner after the fall of Tobruk and detained in different camps in Italy. After the September 1943 armistice, rather than re-joining Allied forces, he took to the mountains and established contacts with Resistance forces active in the Apennines between Liguria and Toscana. Lett founded and led the Battaglione Internazionale, a multinational unit that successfully engaged Black Brigades and German units. Later, when reliable lines of communication were secured, supplies were dropped by air and the Battaglione was supplemented by Special Operations Executive personnel. Gordon Lett was relieved by Major John Henderson in March 1945. After the war, Lett was awarded the DSO and received the Medaglia Argento al valor militare.
The collection consists of a selection of Gordon Lett's papers and official correspondence with key figures of the local Resistance movement. They include Colonnello Mario Fontana (‘Cossu’, or ‘Turchi’), Comandante Luciano Scotti (‘Vittorio’ or ‘Gonzaga’), Commissario Politico Anselmo Corsini ('Ambrosio', or ‘Max’) and Mario Fortelli, a lawyer acting as liaison officer with the local Allied Military Mission.
Documents consist of military assessments, notes on air drops, a ciphers book, a draft of a radio message sent via clandestine radio operators, and a request for tactical bombing. The collection contains notes on an aircraft crash, the military funeral and the subsequent burial of the aircrew. A specific subset includes correspondence, plans and reports about the construction of an improvised landing strip for Allied aircraft operating behind enemy lines.
All documents were deposited at the La Spezia City Council and then re-housed in 1972 at the Istituto spezzino per la Storia della Resistenza e dell’Età Contemporanea, where they have been preserved ever since. The selection published here has been curated by Tiziano Vernazza.
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VOLONTARI DELLA LIBERTA’
COMANDO DELLA ZONA OPERATIVA
N. 674 DI PROT. [underlined] SEGRETO [/underlined] URGENTE li’ 17 marzo 1945
OGGETTO: campo dei Casoni
AL COMANDO DELLA 1° DIVISIONE LIGURIA “”Picchiara””
E, per conoscenza,
AL MAGGIORE HENDERSON = Uff. Coll. Q.G.A. presso la IV Zona
È intendimento di questo comando, in unione al Maggiore Henderson Uff. di coll. del Q.G.A. presso la IV zona, di costruire presso la località ““i Casoni”” un campo di atterraggio di fortuna per aerei.
Allo scopo, il Maggiore Henderson che ha fatto compiere gli studi necessari, prevede che occorrono circa 2000 giornate lavorative cosicché, mediante l’impiego di 200 operai, in dieci giorni il lavoro sarebbe compiuto.
Sen[n]onché, è difficile procurarsi gli attrezzi per l’impiego del predetto numero di operai eppertanto, per iniziare il lavoro, si è previsto l’impiego di soli cinquanta uomini.
In conseguenza, codesto comando, [underlined] mantenendo riservatissimo lo scopo del lavoro, [/underlined] provveda affinché per le ore 8 del mattino del 19 corr.mese N° 50 patrioti si trovino nella località ““i Casoni””, per iniziare il lavoro di cui trattasi.
Sul luogo, per il giorno ed ora predetta, si troverà un tecnico che dirigerà il lavoro.
I patrioti comandati a compiere il lavoro, dovranno essere forniti, naturalmente, dei viveri necessari o, nei limiti del possibile, di badili, gravine, carriole ecc.
Data l’importanza del lavoro da compiersi, lavoro che ridonderà a tutto beneficio delle formazioni e, più che altro, alla condotta della guerra dei liberazione, si invita codesto comando a prendere tutte le necessarie misure affinché il lavoro stesso si possa compiere con ordine e nel minore tempo possibile.
Si prega, intanto, di informare di quanto sarà ordinato al riguardo e di trasmettera[e] alla fine della 1^ giornata di lavoro ( rapporto che dovrà pervenire a questo comando non oltre le ore 9 del giorno 20 corr. ) su quanto nella giornata stessa è stato fatto, sugli inconvenienti riscontrati e sui provvedimenti presi per eliminarli. Detto rapporto dovrà essere compilato da apposito ufficiale ispettore che codesto comando si compiacerà inviare sul posto nel precipuo intento di meglio organizzare il servizio.
IL COMMISSARIO POLITICO a.p.s.
IL COMANDANTE LA ZONA Z. O. S. P.
IL CAPO DI S.M.
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ita
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Construction of the Casoni improvised landing strip
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Memorandum outlining the plans for the construction of an improvised air strip at Casoni according to a preliminary study carried out by Major John Henderson. Mentions delivery schedule, manpower needed, tools, supplies and logistics. Strict secrecy is recommended.
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1945-03-17
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1945-03-17
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Italy. Comitato di Liberazione Nazionale. IV zona operativa
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Tiziano Vernazza
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One-page typewritten memorandum
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This content is property of the Istituto spezzino per la Storia della Resistenza e dell’Età Contemporanea which has kindly granted the International Bomber Command Centre Digital Archive a royalty-free permission to publish it. It has been published here ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre.
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isrlaspezia AMb4f1 288
Resistance
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Lett, Gordon
Gordon Lett
Ernest Gordon Appleford Lett
E G A Lett
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An account of the resource
56 items. The collection concerns Major Ernest Gordon Appleford Lett, DSO (1910-1989, 50112), a British Army officer and partisan leader in Italy. He was taken prisoner after the fall of Tobruk and detained in different camps in Italy. After the September 1943 armistice, rather than re-joining Allied forces, he took to the mountains and established contacts with Resistance forces active in the Apennines between Liguria and Toscana. Lett founded and led the Battaglione Internazionale, a multinational unit that successfully engaged Black Brigades and German units. Later, when reliable lines of communication were secured, supplies were dropped by air and the Battaglione was supplemented by Special Operations Executive personnel. Gordon Lett was relieved by Major John Henderson in March 1945. After the war, Lett was awarded the DSO and received the Medaglia Argento al valor militare.
The collection consists of a selection of Gordon Lett's papers and official correspondence with key figures of the local Resistance movement. They include Colonnello Mario Fontana (‘Cossu’, or ‘Turchi’), Comandante Luciano Scotti (‘Vittorio’ or ‘Gonzaga’), Commissario Politico Anselmo Corsini ('Ambrosio', or ‘Max’) and Mario Fortelli, a lawyer acting as liaison officer with the local Allied Military Mission.
Documents consist of military assessments, notes on air drops, a ciphers book, a draft of a radio message sent via clandestine radio operators, and a request for tactical bombing. The collection contains notes on an aircraft crash, the military funeral and the subsequent burial of the aircrew. A specific subset includes correspondence, plans and reports about the construction of an improvised landing strip for Allied aircraft operating behind enemy lines.
All documents were deposited at the La Spezia City Council and then re-housed in 1972 at the Istituto spezzino per la Storia della Resistenza e dell’Età Contemporanea, where they have been preserved ever since. The selection published here has been curated by Tiziano Vernazza.
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Signore Colonello
A proposito l’incidente sul campo di lancio l’altro giorno, ho bisogna (parlare) a Lei questa lettera, in tale modo che Lei può agire come Lei crede meglio.
Il comandante Cino mih ha mandato una lettera di spiegazione, in quale ha detto che l’ufficiale Erzio aveva gli ordini a mettere in arresto tutti “stranieri” chi vengano sul campo di lancio, etc, etc.
Io non sono sodisfatto colla sua lettera, con quella spiegazione. Mi dispiace, Signore Colonello, ma l’azione di quest’ufficiale contro miei uomini era un insulto a me, ed al Comando Alleato, che Io non posso lasciare passare senza protesta. Quest’é la seconda volta che un simile affare é successo. tramite l’ufficiale Erz(i)o III, sempre agli ordini del Comandante della Colonna Giustizia e Libertà; io non ho nessuna intenzione che succederà una terza volta.
A parlare di miei uomini come “stranieri” é una cosaa abbastanza strana, siccome che tutti portano la stemma degli Alleati suula tasca. Si vede che, ancora una volta, gli uomini scelti per servizia sotto miei ordini, [indecipherable word] e chi, percio, sono una parte della mia Missione Militare, sono trattati da certe persone come “stranieri”, che vuol dire “traditori”. Mi sento abbastanza offeso che, dopo tutto che Io ho tentato di […] Io Divisione Liguria, unr ragazzo senza educazione come questo Erzio […] che l’appoggia di suo Comandante di insultarmi quando lui vuole.
Gli affari sul campo di lancio (sono andati) male per diverso tempo.
L’altro giorno è venuto il Comandante Cino, per discutere ancora una volta, la posizione del campo di lancio di giorno, ed i segnali. Sembra che in questi giorni, tramite Liberto, ce sono stato combinato altri segnali differenti per gli apparecchi della 5a Armata. Sono così stufo di tutti questi inuti(l)i discorsi; che ho detto al Comandante Cino a fare come vuole. Adesso ce sono due segnali di giorno.
Il campo di lancio di Picchiara, ho sempre detto, è troppo pericoloso per un lancio di giorno, perche é in pieno vista di Cornice, e la via Aurelia. Il Comandante (capisce) questo fatto molto bene. - malgrado quello, lui vuole continuare a [mettere] in pericolo inutilmente tutta la nostra zona.
Percio, Signore Colonello, Io non posso accettare più, in confronto […], i lanci per la I° Divisione Liguria, Al stesso tempo, c’é bisogna (di spiegare) che Io deve stare in questa zona per un periodo ancora, per combinare un lancio per mia missione, e per preparare per una azione speciale, da parte degli Alleati. Percio Io continuero ad occupare il campo ROSSI; Saro molto riconoscente se Lei spieg(h)erà questo al Comandante Cino, ed al stesso tempo avvertirgli che Io non voglio vedere nessuno di suoi uomini, specialmente il Ten: Erzio, su quel campo. Se questo Commando non é obbedito da parte sua, poi sarà constretto a prendere la più forte azione disciplinarla, al stesso tempo avvertendo Lei.
Le due staffette chi erano presente quando l’incidente coll’ufficiale Erzio è succes(s)o, sono rimasti molto mal’ impressionato; speriamo che non faranno un rapporto alla base, perché ho fatto molto, come Lei Sa, a darli l’impressione laggiu che noi lavoriamo tutto d’accordo.
Distinti Saluti
20 Dec: 44 Major, Comando alleato
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ita
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Gordon Lett's complaints regarding Resistance forces
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Major Gordon Lett writes to Colonnello Mario Fontana criticising lack of coordination, poor discipline, and the fact Allied Mission personnel are considered as “foreigners” rather than Allied forces.
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Italy. Comitato di Liberazione Nazionale. Allied Military Liaison Mission
Gordon Lett
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1944-12-20
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1944-12-20
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Tiziano Vernazza
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One-page typewritten letter
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This content is property of the Istituto spezzino per la Storia della Resistenza e dell’Età Contemporanea which has kindly granted the International Bomber Command Centre Digital Archive a royalty-free permission to publish it. It has been published here ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre.
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isrlaspezia AMb17f2 BIS 4002
Resistance
-
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Lett, Gordon
Gordon Lett
Ernest Gordon Appleford Lett
E G A Lett
Description
An account of the resource
56 items. The collection concerns Major Ernest Gordon Appleford Lett, DSO (1910-1989, 50112), a British Army officer and partisan leader in Italy. He was taken prisoner after the fall of Tobruk and detained in different camps in Italy. After the September 1943 armistice, rather than re-joining Allied forces, he took to the mountains and established contacts with Resistance forces active in the Apennines between Liguria and Toscana. Lett founded and led the Battaglione Internazionale, a multinational unit that successfully engaged Black Brigades and German units. Later, when reliable lines of communication were secured, supplies were dropped by air and the Battaglione was supplemented by Special Operations Executive personnel. Gordon Lett was relieved by Major John Henderson in March 1945. After the war, Lett was awarded the DSO and received the Medaglia Argento al valor militare.
The collection consists of a selection of Gordon Lett's papers and official correspondence with key figures of the local Resistance movement. They include Colonnello Mario Fontana (‘Cossu’, or ‘Turchi’), Comandante Luciano Scotti (‘Vittorio’ or ‘Gonzaga’), Commissario Politico Anselmo Corsini ('Ambrosio', or ‘Max’) and Mario Fortelli, a lawyer acting as liaison officer with the local Allied Military Mission.
Documents consist of military assessments, notes on air drops, a ciphers book, a draft of a radio message sent via clandestine radio operators, and a request for tactical bombing. The collection contains notes on an aircraft crash, the military funeral and the subsequent burial of the aircrew. A specific subset includes correspondence, plans and reports about the construction of an improvised landing strip for Allied aircraft operating behind enemy lines.
All documents were deposited at the La Spezia City Council and then re-housed in 1972 at the Istituto spezzino per la Storia della Resistenza e dell’Età Contemporanea, where they have been preserved ever since. The selection published here has been curated by Tiziano Vernazza.
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VOLONTARI DELLA LIBERTÀ
1° DIVISIONE LIGURIA
COMANDO
Risposta a Nota
Del.................. 19..............
N........................................
Zona, li,......................
Prot. N. 363
Allegati N......... Atti
OGGETTO: Prigionieri Alleati
AL COMANDO MILITARE ALLEATO
E p.c. AL COMANDO DELLA 4° ZONA OPERATIVA
Ci giunge informazione che i sette paracadutisti Inglesi Catturati dai nazi - fascisti a Montebello sono stati trasferiti dalle carceri di Spezia a quelle di Genova.
Tanto si comunica per opportuna conoscenza di codesto Comando.
IL COMM. P. DI DIV. (Vas)
IL COMANDANTE DI DIV. (Gonzaga)
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Italy--Genoa
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ita
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Whereabouts of British paratroopers captured at Montebello
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Comandante Luciano Scotti reports to Major Gordon Lett that seven British paratroopers captured at Montebello have been transferred from La Spezia to Genova.
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Italy. Comitato di Liberazione Nazionale. I Divisione Liguria
Luciano Scotti
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1945-04-13
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1945-04
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Tiziano Vernazza
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One-page typewritten report
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This content is property of the Istituto spezzino per la Storia della Resistenza e dell’Età Contemporanea which has kindly granted the International Bomber Command Centre Digital Archive a royalty-free permission to publish it. It has been published here ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre.
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isrlaspezia AMb17f2 BIS 4001
Resistance
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Lett, Gordon
Gordon Lett
Ernest Gordon Appleford Lett
E G A Lett
Description
An account of the resource
56 items. The collection concerns Major Ernest Gordon Appleford Lett, DSO (1910-1989, 50112), a British Army officer and partisan leader in Italy. He was taken prisoner after the fall of Tobruk and detained in different camps in Italy. After the September 1943 armistice, rather than re-joining Allied forces, he took to the mountains and established contacts with Resistance forces active in the Apennines between Liguria and Toscana. Lett founded and led the Battaglione Internazionale, a multinational unit that successfully engaged Black Brigades and German units. Later, when reliable lines of communication were secured, supplies were dropped by air and the Battaglione was supplemented by Special Operations Executive personnel. Gordon Lett was relieved by Major John Henderson in March 1945. After the war, Lett was awarded the DSO and received the Medaglia Argento al valor militare.
The collection consists of a selection of Gordon Lett's papers and official correspondence with key figures of the local Resistance movement. They include Colonnello Mario Fontana (‘Cossu’, or ‘Turchi’), Comandante Luciano Scotti (‘Vittorio’ or ‘Gonzaga’), Commissario Politico Anselmo Corsini ('Ambrosio', or ‘Max’) and Mario Fortelli, a lawyer acting as liaison officer with the local Allied Military Mission.
Documents consist of military assessments, notes on air drops, a ciphers book, a draft of a radio message sent via clandestine radio operators, and a request for tactical bombing. The collection contains notes on an aircraft crash, the military funeral and the subsequent burial of the aircrew. A specific subset includes correspondence, plans and reports about the construction of an improvised landing strip for Allied aircraft operating behind enemy lines.
All documents were deposited at the La Spezia City Council and then re-housed in 1972 at the Istituto spezzino per la Storia della Resistenza e dell’Età Contemporanea, where they have been preserved ever since. The selection published here has been curated by Tiziano Vernazza.
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X li 4/Genn. 1945
Al Comando I Divisione Liguria
Rengrazio Codesto Comando per le cortesi espressioni di condoglianza che mis sono state dirette in occasione del luttuoso incidente del quale sono stati vittima alcuni miei compatriotti.
Il Rappresentante del Comando Militare Alleato (Magg. Gordon Lett)
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ita
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Military funeral of British aircrew
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Letter of gratitude from Major Gordon Lett to Comandante Luciano Scotti regarding the military funeral and the condolences following the crash of a British aircraft and the death of its aircrew.
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1945-01-04
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1944-12-30
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Gordon Lett
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Tiziano Vernazza
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One-page typewritten note
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This content is property of the Istituto spezzino per la Storia della Resistenza e dell’Età Contemporanea which has kindly granted the International Bomber Command Centre Digital Archive a royalty-free permission to publish it. It has been published here ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre.
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isrlaspezia AMb17f2 BIS 3992
Resistance
-
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Lett, Gordon
Gordon Lett
Ernest Gordon Appleford Lett
E G A Lett
Description
An account of the resource
56 items. The collection concerns Major Ernest Gordon Appleford Lett, DSO (1910-1989, 50112), a British Army officer and partisan leader in Italy. He was taken prisoner after the fall of Tobruk and detained in different camps in Italy. After the September 1943 armistice, rather than re-joining Allied forces, he took to the mountains and established contacts with Resistance forces active in the Apennines between Liguria and Toscana. Lett founded and led the Battaglione Internazionale, a multinational unit that successfully engaged Black Brigades and German units. Later, when reliable lines of communication were secured, supplies were dropped by air and the Battaglione was supplemented by Special Operations Executive personnel. Gordon Lett was relieved by Major John Henderson in March 1945. After the war, Lett was awarded the DSO and received the Medaglia Argento al valor militare.
The collection consists of a selection of Gordon Lett's papers and official correspondence with key figures of the local Resistance movement. They include Colonnello Mario Fontana (‘Cossu’, or ‘Turchi’), Comandante Luciano Scotti (‘Vittorio’ or ‘Gonzaga’), Commissario Politico Anselmo Corsini ('Ambrosio', or ‘Max’) and Mario Fortelli, a lawyer acting as liaison officer with the local Allied Military Mission.
Documents consist of military assessments, notes on air drops, a ciphers book, a draft of a radio message sent via clandestine radio operators, and a request for tactical bombing. The collection contains notes on an aircraft crash, the military funeral and the subsequent burial of the aircrew. A specific subset includes correspondence, plans and reports about the construction of an improvised landing strip for Allied aircraft operating behind enemy lines.
All documents were deposited at the La Spezia City Council and then re-housed in 1972 at the Istituto spezzino per la Storia della Resistenza e dell’Età Contemporanea, where they have been preserved ever since. The selection published here has been curated by Tiziano Vernazza.
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VOLONTARI DELLA LIBERTÀ
1° Divisione Liguria “Picchiara”
COMANDO
Prot. N....................... X lì 1/1/45
Oggetto: Funerali
AL MAGG. GORDON LETT
Le comunichiamo che il Comando Alleato ha disposto che le salme degli aviatori caduti presso Rossano il 30/12/44 non siano tumulate, ma si debbano attendere istruzioni dal Comando Alleato per la procedura da seguirsi.
Prenda gli opportuni provvedimenti.-
Rinnoviamo auguri per il corrente anni 1945
Il Comm. Pel. Di Div. (Vas)
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ita
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Burial of British aircrew who crashed near Rossano
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Comandante Luciano Scotti urges Major Gordon Lett to postpone the burial of the British aircrew who crashed near Rossano on 30 December 1944.
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Gordon Lett
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1945-01-01
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1944-12-30
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Tiziano Vernazza
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One-page typewritten letter
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This content is property of the Istituto spezzino per la Storia della Resistenza e dell’Età Contemporanea which has kindly granted the International Bomber Command Centre Digital Archive a royalty-free permission to publish it. It has been published here ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre.
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isrlaspezia AMb17f2 BIS 3990
Resistance
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Lett, Gordon
Gordon Lett
Ernest Gordon Appleford Lett
E G A Lett
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56 items. The collection concerns Major Ernest Gordon Appleford Lett, DSO (1910-1989, 50112), a British Army officer and partisan leader in Italy. He was taken prisoner after the fall of Tobruk and detained in different camps in Italy. After the September 1943 armistice, rather than re-joining Allied forces, he took to the mountains and established contacts with Resistance forces active in the Apennines between Liguria and Toscana. Lett founded and led the Battaglione Internazionale, a multinational unit that successfully engaged Black Brigades and German units. Later, when reliable lines of communication were secured, supplies were dropped by air and the Battaglione was supplemented by Special Operations Executive personnel. Gordon Lett was relieved by Major John Henderson in March 1945. After the war, Lett was awarded the DSO and received the Medaglia Argento al valor militare.
The collection consists of a selection of Gordon Lett's papers and official correspondence with key figures of the local Resistance movement. They include Colonnello Mario Fontana (‘Cossu’, or ‘Turchi’), Comandante Luciano Scotti (‘Vittorio’ or ‘Gonzaga’), Commissario Politico Anselmo Corsini ('Ambrosio', or ‘Max’) and Mario Fortelli, a lawyer acting as liaison officer with the local Allied Military Mission.
Documents consist of military assessments, notes on air drops, a ciphers book, a draft of a radio message sent via clandestine radio operators, and a request for tactical bombing. The collection contains notes on an aircraft crash, the military funeral and the subsequent burial of the aircrew. A specific subset includes correspondence, plans and reports about the construction of an improvised landing strip for Allied aircraft operating behind enemy lines.
All documents were deposited at the La Spezia City Council and then re-housed in 1972 at the Istituto spezzino per la Storia della Resistenza e dell’Età Contemporanea, where they have been preserved ever since. The selection published here has been curated by Tiziano Vernazza.
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Comandante
[indecipherable words] Divisione Liguria
In questi giorni, due staffette [indecipherable word] del Comando Alleato mi hanno portato una quantità di soldi, per l’uso della mia Missione Militare.
Siccome tanti di nostre amici nella zona hanno sofferto dai rastrellamenti, ho deciso a distribuire la metà di questi soldi fra quelli chi hanno avuto le case bruciate, o chi hanno molto bisogna.
Percio, Lei mando lire 50.000, per distribuire, se Lei sarà d’accordo in nome della Divisione, fra le famiglie diverse di Zeri. Io pensaro Rossano, Cerro e Casoni - sempre [indecipherable word] se Lei a niente a dire in contrario.
Distinti Saluti
Major,
Rapp: Comando Alleato
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Italy--Zeri
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ita
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Financial support of civilians
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Major Gordon Lett acknowledges the delivery a substantial sum of money for the Allied Mission. He states that it exceeds present needs and suggests distributing part of it to civilians who live in the civil parishes near Zeri, especially those who have suffered the consequences of roundups.
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Gordon Lett
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1944-12-20
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1944-12-20
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Tiziano Vernazza
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One-page typewritten letter
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isrlaspezia AMb17f2 3981
Resistance
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Lett, Gordon
Gordon Lett
Ernest Gordon Appleford Lett
E G A Lett
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An account of the resource
56 items. The collection concerns Major Ernest Gordon Appleford Lett, DSO (1910-1989, 50112), a British Army officer and partisan leader in Italy. He was taken prisoner after the fall of Tobruk and detained in different camps in Italy. After the September 1943 armistice, rather than re-joining Allied forces, he took to the mountains and established contacts with Resistance forces active in the Apennines between Liguria and Toscana. Lett founded and led the Battaglione Internazionale, a multinational unit that successfully engaged Black Brigades and German units. Later, when reliable lines of communication were secured, supplies were dropped by air and the Battaglione was supplemented by Special Operations Executive personnel. Gordon Lett was relieved by Major John Henderson in March 1945. After the war, Lett was awarded the DSO and received the Medaglia Argento al valor militare.
The collection consists of a selection of Gordon Lett's papers and official correspondence with key figures of the local Resistance movement. They include Colonnello Mario Fontana (‘Cossu’, or ‘Turchi’), Comandante Luciano Scotti (‘Vittorio’ or ‘Gonzaga’), Commissario Politico Anselmo Corsini ('Ambrosio', or ‘Max’) and Mario Fortelli, a lawyer acting as liaison officer with the local Allied Military Mission.
Documents consist of military assessments, notes on air drops, a ciphers book, a draft of a radio message sent via clandestine radio operators, and a request for tactical bombing. The collection contains notes on an aircraft crash, the military funeral and the subsequent burial of the aircrew. A specific subset includes correspondence, plans and reports about the construction of an improvised landing strip for Allied aircraft operating behind enemy lines.
All documents were deposited at the La Spezia City Council and then re-housed in 1972 at the Istituto spezzino per la Storia della Resistenza e dell’Età Contemporanea, where they have been preserved ever since. The selection published here has been curated by Tiziano Vernazza.
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VOLONTARI DELLA LIBERTÀ COMANDO 1° DIVISIONE “LIGURIA”
Prot. N...... X=14=NOV.44=
Al Sig. Magg. Gordon Lett.
Oggetto: Criminale di guerra Ten. Collini di Arezzo
Prego vivamente volere provocare da parte dei competenti organi alleati l’iscrizione nella lista dei criminali di guerra del Ten. Collini= Da Arezzo=studente universitario della facoltà di ingegneria attualmente comandante di una compagnia del 2° reggimento alpino della divisione neofascista “MONTE ROSA”. Il predetto immondo individuo ha commesso, durante la sua permanenza sulle montagne liguri=emiliane numerosi crimini, torturando patrioti, incendiando abitati, “divertendosi” a fare fuoco con il cannone sui villaggi.
È un tipico esempio di quanto possa pervertire l’anima dei giovani la brutale e settaria educazione fascista.
IL COMMISSARIO POLITICO DI DIV. (Salvatore)
IL COMANDANTE LA DIV. (Col. Turchi)
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Italy
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ita
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Ettore Collini's war crimes
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Colonnello Mario Fontana urges Major Gordon Lett to add the name of Tenente Ettore Collini, serving in the Monte Rosa Brigade, to the list of Allied war criminals. He then describes the atrocities committed.
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Italy. Comitato di Liberazione Nazionale. I Divisione Liguria
Mario Fontana
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1944-11-14
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1944-11
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Tiziano Vernazza
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One-page typewritten note
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isrlaspezia AMb17f2 BIS 3976
Resistance
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Lett, Gordon
Gordon Lett
Ernest Gordon Appleford Lett
E G A Lett
Description
An account of the resource
56 items. The collection concerns Major Ernest Gordon Appleford Lett, DSO (1910-1989, 50112), a British Army officer and partisan leader in Italy. He was taken prisoner after the fall of Tobruk and detained in different camps in Italy. After the September 1943 armistice, rather than re-joining Allied forces, he took to the mountains and established contacts with Resistance forces active in the Apennines between Liguria and Toscana. Lett founded and led the Battaglione Internazionale, a multinational unit that successfully engaged Black Brigades and German units. Later, when reliable lines of communication were secured, supplies were dropped by air and the Battaglione was supplemented by Special Operations Executive personnel. Gordon Lett was relieved by Major John Henderson in March 1945. After the war, Lett was awarded the DSO and received the Medaglia Argento al valor militare.
The collection consists of a selection of Gordon Lett's papers and official correspondence with key figures of the local Resistance movement. They include Colonnello Mario Fontana (‘Cossu’, or ‘Turchi’), Comandante Luciano Scotti (‘Vittorio’ or ‘Gonzaga’), Commissario Politico Anselmo Corsini ('Ambrosio', or ‘Max’) and Mario Fortelli, a lawyer acting as liaison officer with the local Allied Military Mission.
Documents consist of military assessments, notes on air drops, a ciphers book, a draft of a radio message sent via clandestine radio operators, and a request for tactical bombing. The collection contains notes on an aircraft crash, the military funeral and the subsequent burial of the aircrew. A specific subset includes correspondence, plans and reports about the construction of an improvised landing strip for Allied aircraft operating behind enemy lines.
All documents were deposited at the La Spezia City Council and then re-housed in 1972 at the Istituto spezzino per la Storia della Resistenza e dell’Età Contemporanea, where they have been preserved ever since. The selection published here has been curated by Tiziano Vernazza.
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ALL THE ALLIED PRISONERS WHO HAVE REACHED OUR (LINES) SAFETY SPEAK OF THE MAGNIFICENT WORK YOU ARE DOING AND THE GREAT HELP YOU HAVE GIVEN TO THEM IN PROVIDING GUIDES MONEY, FOOD, AND CLOTHES. PLEASE ACCEPT THESE SIX CONTAINERS OF STORES (?) AND USE THEM BORTH FOR THE ASSISTANCE OF PRISONERS AND ANY OTHER [indecipherable word] (COMANDER) WILL ASSIST TOU IN YOUR WORK FOR THE ALLIES.
IF YOU WANT ANY MORE SUPPLIES IN THE FUTURE AND CAN SEND A MESSENGER WITH YOUR REQUEST I WILL YOU DO EVERYTHING POSSIBLE TO SEND THEM TO YOU. IMMEDIATELY YOU ARE IS CAPTURED BY THE ALLIED ON YOU COME TO THIS SIDE OF THE LINE I SHALL BE VERY [indecipherable word] TO WANT YOU. KEEP UP YOU GOOD WORK. GOOD LUCK.
MAJOR ???????
BRITISH COMMAND.
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ita
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Congratulatory message and delivery of six containers of supplies
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Congratulatory message to Major Gordon Lett accompanying the delivery of six containers of supplies, intended as a token of gratitude for the help given to Allied prisoners of wars. Mentions positive feedback from servicemen who have crossed the lines, and offers to send more supplies.
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Tiziano Vernazza
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This content is property of the Istituto spezzino per la Storia della Resistenza e dell’Età Contemporanea which has kindly granted the International Bomber Command Centre Digital Archive a royalty-free permission to publish it. It has been published here ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre.
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isrlaspezia AMb13f7 1934
prisoner of war
Resistance
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Lett, Gordon
Gordon Lett
Ernest Gordon Appleford Lett
E G A Lett
Description
An account of the resource
56 items. The collection concerns Major Ernest Gordon Appleford Lett, DSO (1910-1989, 50112), a British Army officer and partisan leader in Italy. He was taken prisoner after the fall of Tobruk and detained in different camps in Italy. After the September 1943 armistice, rather than re-joining Allied forces, he took to the mountains and established contacts with Resistance forces active in the Apennines between Liguria and Toscana. Lett founded and led the Battaglione Internazionale, a multinational unit that successfully engaged Black Brigades and German units. Later, when reliable lines of communication were secured, supplies were dropped by air and the Battaglione was supplemented by Special Operations Executive personnel. Gordon Lett was relieved by Major John Henderson in March 1945. After the war, Lett was awarded the DSO and received the Medaglia Argento al valor militare.
The collection consists of a selection of Gordon Lett's papers and official correspondence with key figures of the local Resistance movement. They include Colonnello Mario Fontana (‘Cossu’, or ‘Turchi’), Comandante Luciano Scotti (‘Vittorio’ or ‘Gonzaga’), Commissario Politico Anselmo Corsini ('Ambrosio', or ‘Max’) and Mario Fortelli, a lawyer acting as liaison officer with the local Allied Military Mission.
Documents consist of military assessments, notes on air drops, a ciphers book, a draft of a radio message sent via clandestine radio operators, and a request for tactical bombing. The collection contains notes on an aircraft crash, the military funeral and the subsequent burial of the aircrew. A specific subset includes correspondence, plans and reports about the construction of an improvised landing strip for Allied aircraft operating behind enemy lines.
All documents were deposited at the La Spezia City Council and then re-housed in 1972 at the Istituto spezzino per la Storia della Resistenza e dell’Età Contemporanea, where they have been preserved ever since. The selection published here has been curated by Tiziano Vernazza.
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Caro Fortelli,
gli avvenimenti si succedono uno dopo l’altro a tutti a forti tinte da grad guignoli. Strano a dirsi tutte le volte tu ti trovi rivolto nelle vicende.
Cerchiamo di riepilogare il succedersi di questi fatti.
I°) Il 27 del mese di dicembre ricevo dal Maggiore Gordon una comunicazione riguardante i lanci di paracadutisti. =Questi lanci come quelli dei materiali avvengono in zona di Rossano [indecipherable word] e non sul Picchiara. =Per aver scartato il Monte Picchiara sono in perfetto accordo con il Maggiore Gordon; per aver scelto Rossano come sede dei lanci No perché come volevasi dimostrare buona parte del materiale va a finire a tutti meno che alle formazioni.= Di ciò ne avverto il Maggiore Gordon ed egli lo riconosce al punto che d’accordo con l’Ufficiale di Col. della 5a Armata si stabilisce che i Campi saranno ripartiti per Divisione ed anche per località e si precisano i Campi di: Casoni, Vezzanelli, S [indecipherable word] Pasquale.=
I primi due per rifornire la prima Divisone il terzo per la Cento Croci.
L’ufficiale di Colegamento inglese considera con me anche l’eventualità di un campo di riserva a Monte Mallone. = Tutto è tranquillo e sereno tanto che il Maggior Gordon mi assicura che io sarò messo al corrente dei segnali dei campi.=
Devo premettere che io sarei partito per Porciorasco il giorno 26 e che sono rimasto invece in quella zona sino al 2 proprio per invito del Maggiore Gordono Lett.=
Il girono 30 lo stesso Maggiore mi fa conoscere alla Pieve gli Ufficiali Inglesi e con lui parliamo delle operazioni da svolgere. Io gli faccio rilevare che non bisogna essere troppo affretati [sic] e riesco ad ottenere che le prime azioni avvengano nell anotte tra il 31 e [undescribable] l’uno. Noto tra parentesi che una pattuglia di paracadutisti inviata da Rossano per particolari compiti in altra zona è stata catturata e questa è la riprova che interritori [sic] nuovi bisogna agire secondo le indicazioni dei conoscitori della zona.
Il giorno I mattina mi trovo ancora con il amggiore Gor(d)on ed egli mi scrive dalla Pieve il biglietto dicendomi che si trasferisce per qualche giorno verso Arzelato ma che il 6 o il 7 sarà a Varese con tutti gli uomini.=
Io raggiungo Varese requisisco un albergo per accogliere gli amici inglesi e........ il giorno 4 mi vedo recapitare una lettera incui mi si dice che per ragioni varie – alcuni delle quali indipendenti dalla responsabilità del Comando dei Patriotti-il Rossanese è dichiarato zona militare Alleata.=
È chiaro che ho [sic] si è voluto tenermi all’oscuro della faccenda oppure ci sono delle ragioni per le quali il Comando della 4° Zona non è ritenuto all’altezza del compito.
Nella stessa lettera si parla dell’avvocato Fortelli quale rapp. Della 4° Zona; del Ten. Franco quale Comandante di reparti speciali che presto entreranno in azione; del Ten. Ermanno che quale rappresentante del presidio militare italiano collaborerà con il Comando Alkleato.= Tralascio di parlare del Ten. Branco che viene posto a servizio dello stesso Comando togliendolo dalle sue normali funzioni.=
A questo punto chiunque si domanda:
1) – Se solamente un determinato gruppo di persone collaborano con il Comando alleato, cosa rappresentano gli altri Comandi di Patriotti.
2) – Come può esistere un Comando di Zona responsabile quando le operazioni vengono decise dal Comando Alleato del Rossanese=
Evidentemente il Maggiore Gordon non ha saputo riconoscere in molti mesi di riconoscenza il; Comandante Col. Turchi, ne si è reso ben conto che i Patriotti sono inquadrati in formazioni forse sufficientemente stracciate ma pur sempre degne di considerazione.=
E a me pare che sia un po’ ingenuodi pensare a far la guerra solo con quei pochi paracadutisti senza tener conto di tutti gli altri uomini, a menochè l’appetito non venga mangiando e non si cerchi con questa prima mossa di guadagnare ulteriore tereno.=
Ora se ciò può anche essere una leggitima aspirazione del Maggiore Gordon vi è da tener conto che a termine di tale diritto gli italiani che sono sui monti dovranno rispondere delle loro azioni di fronte ad altri italiani e che s e anche vi sono
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Putroppo degli uomini che si possono comperare con la sola promessa di qualche futura ricompensa ve ne sono anche altri che al di fuori e al di sopra di ogni cosa tengono alla loro dignita. Tu mi hai chiesto di rimanere presso il Maggiore Gordon? Per parte miamom ho nulla da obbietare [sic] perchè come a quest’ora avrai saputo io non mi considererò più comandante della 4° Zona operativa nei riguardi del Comando Alleato.=
Durante l’estate e nell’autunno Gordon ed io abbiamo fatto tanta strada insieme.=
Speravo di poter giungere alla fine conlo stesso sentimento col quale si [sic] siamo incontrati ed èper questo che sono rimasto prima stupito e poi avvilito per quanto è successo. Tinei bene presente e ti prego di dirlo al Maggiore Gordon Lett che quanto egli desiderava sarebe stato facile se me ne avesse parlato; tieni pure presente e questo consideralo pur un vaticinio che cessando di essere io il centro di queste formazioni tutto andrà a scatafascio ed allora? Con risultato è veramente magnifico e me ne compiaccio con l’ideatore.= Come uomo posso rammaricarmi che vi sia così poca [undecifrable] acutezza di vedute.=
Ad ogni modo “Alea iacta est” e vedremo come finirà.=
Assicura il Maggiore Gordon che a parte queste vicende io sono e resto nelle migliori disposizioni di animo verso lui, ma fagli anche capire che la persona del Col. Turchi è di altra stoffa da quelle con le quali [undecifrable]ino ad ora ha potuto trattare.=
La famosa radio che il maggiore Gordon mi ha detto lanciata per il Comando di Zona il giorno 13 a Boschetto, esiste effettivamente, ma il curioso è che Alfonso dichiara che proprio il maggiore Gordon gli hadetto di trattenerla per la missione. Ed allora?....
Per quanto riguarda la tua posizione tinei presente che se tu vuoi rimanere nelle file patriottiche e come tale essere considerato hai il dovere di seguire gli ordini che ti vengono impartiti dal Comando Italiano e questo di pure al Ten. Franco.
Io non vogilio creare il caso Ellas [undecifrable] nemmeno che si getti da parte tutto il lavoro svolto con tanti sacrifici da quei pochi onesti che vivono sui monti.= Se c’è quindi una via di accomodamento essa va ricercata da aprte del maggiore Gordon Lett [undecifrable] mia ne del Comando di Zona; se c’èqualche prospettiva di incamerare altri reparti per allargare poco alla volta la zona di competenza alleata, è bene si sappia che vi saranno altre zone nelle quali patriotti italiani continueranno a combattere anche senza divise e senza scarpe, mangiando come hanno sempre fatto sacrosanta paton anazionale.=
Rude ti metterà al corrente anche di altre questioni. Per quanto riguarda l’amico Grossi ti mando la lettera che credo però lascerà il tempo che trova.
Cordiali saluti
9/1/45, Cossu
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ita
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Report from Mario Fontana to Gordon Lett
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Colonnello Mario Fontana reports to Major Gordon Lett through Mario Fortelli. Mentions Allied personnel being parachuted behind enemy lines and discusses air drop zones in the La Spezia area. Stresses that zones must be changed, since most items were not picked up by their intended recipients. Mentions difficult coordination and ongoing rivalry between Partisan units.
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Two-page typewritten report (two copies)
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Tiziano Vernazza
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Mario Fontana
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1945-01-09
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1945-01-09
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This content is property of the Istituto spezzino per la Storia della Resistenza e dell’Età Contemporanea which has kindly granted the International Bomber Command Centre Digital Archive a royalty-free permission to publish it. It has been published here ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre.
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isrlaspezia AMb4f3 324
isrlaspezia AMb8f3 1001 BIS
Resistance
rivalry
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Lett, Gordon
Gordon Lett
Ernest Gordon Appleford Lett
E G A Lett
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An account of the resource
56 items. The collection concerns Major Ernest Gordon Appleford Lett, DSO (1910-1989, 50112), a British Army officer and partisan leader in Italy. He was taken prisoner after the fall of Tobruk and detained in different camps in Italy. After the September 1943 armistice, rather than re-joining Allied forces, he took to the mountains and established contacts with Resistance forces active in the Apennines between Liguria and Toscana. Lett founded and led the Battaglione Internazionale, a multinational unit that successfully engaged Black Brigades and German units. Later, when reliable lines of communication were secured, supplies were dropped by air and the Battaglione was supplemented by Special Operations Executive personnel. Gordon Lett was relieved by Major John Henderson in March 1945. After the war, Lett was awarded the DSO and received the Medaglia Argento al valor militare.
The collection consists of a selection of Gordon Lett's papers and official correspondence with key figures of the local Resistance movement. They include Colonnello Mario Fontana (‘Cossu’, or ‘Turchi’), Comandante Luciano Scotti (‘Vittorio’ or ‘Gonzaga’), Commissario Politico Anselmo Corsini ('Ambrosio', or ‘Max’) and Mario Fortelli, a lawyer acting as liaison officer with the local Allied Military Mission.
Documents consist of military assessments, notes on air drops, a ciphers book, a draft of a radio message sent via clandestine radio operators, and a request for tactical bombing. The collection contains notes on an aircraft crash, the military funeral and the subsequent burial of the aircrew. A specific subset includes correspondence, plans and reports about the construction of an improvised landing strip for Allied aircraft operating behind enemy lines.
All documents were deposited at the La Spezia City Council and then re-housed in 1972 at the Istituto spezzino per la Storia della Resistenza e dell’Età Contemporanea, where they have been preserved ever since. The selection published here has been curated by Tiziano Vernazza.
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CIFRARIO IN USO PRESSO I COMANDI:
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Tiziano Vernazza
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Lett, Gordon
Gordon Lett
Ernest Gordon Appleford Lett
E G A Lett
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An account of the resource
56 items. The collection concerns Major Ernest Gordon Appleford Lett, DSO (1910-1989, 50112), a British Army officer and partisan leader in Italy. He was taken prisoner after the fall of Tobruk and detained in different camps in Italy. After the September 1943 armistice, rather than re-joining Allied forces, he took to the mountains and established contacts with Resistance forces active in the Apennines between Liguria and Toscana. Lett founded and led the Battaglione Internazionale, a multinational unit that successfully engaged Black Brigades and German units. Later, when reliable lines of communication were secured, supplies were dropped by air and the Battaglione was supplemented by Special Operations Executive personnel. Gordon Lett was relieved by Major John Henderson in March 1945. After the war, Lett was awarded the DSO and received the Medaglia Argento al valor militare.
The collection consists of a selection of Gordon Lett's papers and official correspondence with key figures of the local Resistance movement. They include Colonnello Mario Fontana (‘Cossu’, or ‘Turchi’), Comandante Luciano Scotti (‘Vittorio’ or ‘Gonzaga’), Commissario Politico Anselmo Corsini ('Ambrosio', or ‘Max’) and Mario Fortelli, a lawyer acting as liaison officer with the local Allied Military Mission.
Documents consist of military assessments, notes on air drops, a ciphers book, a draft of a radio message sent via clandestine radio operators, and a request for tactical bombing. The collection contains notes on an aircraft crash, the military funeral and the subsequent burial of the aircrew. A specific subset includes correspondence, plans and reports about the construction of an improvised landing strip for Allied aircraft operating behind enemy lines.
All documents were deposited at the La Spezia City Council and then re-housed in 1972 at the Istituto spezzino per la Storia della Resistenza e dell’Età Contemporanea, where they have been preserved ever since. The selection published here has been curated by Tiziano Vernazza.
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COMANDO MILITARE ALLEATO
Zona x, li 16/3/1945
Personale/ Segreta:
Egregio Sig. Colonello
Si tratterebbe di realizzare un’opera del massimo interesse ed utilità Militare: trasformare il vasto campo esistente presso i Casoni ( Ghiacciarda ) in un campo di fortuna per i Ns. aeroplani, i quali periodicamente potrebbero atterrare in Zona.
Ho già fatto esaminare il luogo da un tecnico il quale ha preventivato 2000 giornate lavorative per portare a termine l’opera.
Potrebbero essere mobilitati 200 partigiani i quali nel periodo di 10 giorni, sotto la direzione del tecnico eseguissero i lavori necessari?
Personalmente ritengo di si/
Se Ella assentirà, Le sarò grato se vorrà disporre (in) proposito, dandomi le opportune comunicazioni.
Cordiali saluti
Major Henderson
Magg Enderson,
Non si ferm(a) staffetta per trovare 2 200 uomini
ma ve ne ferm(a) per trovare i [indecipherable word] le farle
[deleted] (casoni) che
D’altra parte è (Rauni) [3 indecipherable words]?
Se vogliamo tentare (forse) vogliamo risposta
Consideriamo così 50 uomini e vent’anni
Non risponda subito [2 indecipherable words] gli ordinie
[deleted word]
Per quanto riguarda le nostre informazioni
[deleted] si esclude i nostri assistiti
che [indecipherable word] un 4h e 8, ma
nemmeno [deleted] nessun si fa le, [deleted]
Saluti (firma colonnello Mario Fontana)
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Plan for the construction of an improvised landing strip
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Major John Henderson outlines the plan for the construction of an improvised airstrip at Casoni, including the delivery schedule and manpower needed. On the same sheet is a reply by Mario Fontana stressing the impracticality of the enterprise.
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Mario Fontana
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Tiziano Vernazza
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Lett, Gordon
Gordon Lett
Ernest Gordon Appleford Lett
E G A Lett
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An account of the resource
56 items. The collection concerns Major Ernest Gordon Appleford Lett, DSO (1910-1989, 50112), a British Army officer and partisan leader in Italy. He was taken prisoner after the fall of Tobruk and detained in different camps in Italy. After the September 1943 armistice, rather than re-joining Allied forces, he took to the mountains and established contacts with Resistance forces active in the Apennines between Liguria and Toscana. Lett founded and led the Battaglione Internazionale, a multinational unit that successfully engaged Black Brigades and German units. Later, when reliable lines of communication were secured, supplies were dropped by air and the Battaglione was supplemented by Special Operations Executive personnel. Gordon Lett was relieved by Major John Henderson in March 1945. After the war, Lett was awarded the DSO and received the Medaglia Argento al valor militare.
The collection consists of a selection of Gordon Lett's papers and official correspondence with key figures of the local Resistance movement. They include Colonnello Mario Fontana (‘Cossu’, or ‘Turchi’), Comandante Luciano Scotti (‘Vittorio’ or ‘Gonzaga’), Commissario Politico Anselmo Corsini ('Ambrosio', or ‘Max’) and Mario Fortelli, a lawyer acting as liaison officer with the local Allied Military Mission.
Documents consist of military assessments, notes on air drops, a ciphers book, a draft of a radio message sent via clandestine radio operators, and a request for tactical bombing. The collection contains notes on an aircraft crash, the military funeral and the subsequent burial of the aircrew. A specific subset includes correspondence, plans and reports about the construction of an improvised landing strip for Allied aircraft operating behind enemy lines.
All documents were deposited at the La Spezia City Council and then re-housed in 1972 at the Istituto spezzino per la Storia della Resistenza e dell’Età Contemporanea, where they have been preserved ever since. The selection published here has been curated by Tiziano Vernazza.
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X, 9 Febbraio 1944
AL COLONELLO COSSU
Egregio sig. Colonello
Riscontro la sua gradita lettera in data 7 u.s. n. 279.
1. - LANCI: Sta bene per quanto riguarda i lanci alla Div. " Cento Croci" che rimarranno sospesi fino a Suo ordine.
Per quanto riguarda Salvatore, mi sono incontrato con lui a Colloreta ed ho già provveduto a richiedere un lancio esclusivamente a lui destinato: è prevedibile che ciò avvenga nelle giornate di domani e di dopodomani.
2. RADIO LIBERTAS: In data 7 c.m. in unione al Ten. Gambarotta ed ad altri due paracadutisti è stato paracadutato un tenente italiano con la precisa missione di assumere il Comando della missione Libertas in sostituzione del Ten. Cino. Il nuovo Capo missione che ha nome Ten. Gino trovasi attualmente presso il Comando della 1.a Div.Liguria "Monte Picchiara". Ritengo trattarsi di un ottimo giovane, capace e intelligente il quale saprà certamente risolvere il ben noto scabroso punto.
3.- LANCIO COMANDO ZONA: Il giorno 8 ho personalmente veduto due apparecchi da lancio muoversi nella direzione di Varese Porciorasca.
Voglio sperare che essi abbiano effettuato l'atteso lancio.
4.- OPERAZIONI REPARTO INGLESE: Nella notte del giorno 8 tale reparto ha effettuato due azioni sulla via Aurelia sotto Borseda attacando [sic] con fuoco di mitragliatrice pesante convogli autotrasportati tedeschi. Risulta che dieci autocarri sono andati distrutti. Sarò ben lieto edoperarmi [sic] perchè a tali azioni partecipino anche reparti patriottici: attendo però che il COM.DIV. mi segnali gli elementi a disposizione per le azioni in oggetto.
5. - RADION DEL COMANDO ZONA: E' stato effettuato, il lancio di un marconista inglese; perciò Bianchi ed Alfonso possono ritenersi sin d'ora a Sua completa disposizione.
Essi, per altro, passeranno alle Sue dirette dipendenze non appena il Suo desiderato avvicinamento verrà effettuato.
6.- RIUNIONE PER GRUPPO: L'avv. Fortelli, non io, perchè sono immobilizzato da [un'ustione] al piede, si sarebbe recaro [sic] con vivo piacere alla riunione, senonchè la Sua lettera ci è arrivata troppo tardi e precisamente il 10 sera, quando ormai la riunione stessa era cosa passata.
7.- REPARTO TULLIO: Il Comando della V Armata ha inviato per via terra un Ufficiale di collegamento particolarmente accreditate presso il reparto in oggetto e tre militari inglesi con una radio pur essi destinati alla stessa formazione.
Lei comprende Colonello che [deleted] ci troviamo ormai di fronte al fatto compiuto: il tempo stringe e non resta che sperare che il Comandante Tullio sappia far dimenticare il suo passato.
8.- CONTATTI COLLA MISSIONE AMERICANA: Data la mia forzata immobilizzazione ho dovuto inviare Jeodf e Kriss in compagnia di Avio. Ho dato precise disposizioni perché tutta la zona del Borgotarese fino alla Cisa volente o nolente il Comando Unico di Parma passi sotto il controllo della IV Zona operativa.
In tale zona se Ella non avrà nulla in contrario agiranno al più presto Franco e Salvatore colle loro squadra.
9.- DIRETTIVE DEL COMANDO DEL QUARTIERE GENERALE ALLEATO: Il Ten. Gino ha avuto l’esplicito incarico di organizzare i lanci per tutta la zona del Zignago. Tali lanci saranno effettuati di volta in volta nella misura corrispondente al fabbisogno di una squadra di 58 uomini, tale eesendo [sic] l’unità di impiego che i Comandi superiori alleati ritengono più redditizia nella guerra partigiana.
Anche tali lanci, per altro, non saranno effettuati sino a quando non mi saranno pervenute le relazioni relative alla situazione armamento delle formazioni. Grazie infinite per tutto quanto Ella ha fatto a riscontro della mia prec.
Venga presto. Cordiali Saluti
Gordon Lett Major
Caro Colonello,
Accidenti ai collegamenti! Sarei senz’altro venuto per incontrarLa a Groppo se la lettera fosse giunta quando Lei credeva dovesse giungere.
Non resta che la possibilità di rammaricarsi.
Sono contento che la lettera da me preparata per Ricchetto sia stata di Suo gradimento. Non ho ancora veduto Franco per comunicargli la sua approvazione…. Certamente toccherà il cielo con un (dito).
Anche Avio è assente e perciò non ho potuto fargli la comunicazione da Lei desiderata.
Per i bracciali provvederò a Montereggio. A Rossano vi sono asili e muli per il trasferimento del Comando di zona: Non resta quindi che partire.
Cordiali Saluti e (arrivederci) a presto.
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Report form Gordon Lett to Mario Fontana
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Tiziano Vernazza
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1944-02-09
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1944-02-09
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Gordon Lett
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Gordon Lett writes to Colonnello Mario Fontana detailing recent activities: air drops, the activities of radio operators, actions against the Germans, and Allied personnel being parachuted behind enemy lines.
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This content is property of the Istituto spezzino per la Storia della Resistenza e dell’Età Contemporanea which has kindly granted the International Bomber Command Centre Digital Archive a royalty-free permission to publish it. It has been published here ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre.
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Lett, Gordon
Gordon Lett
Ernest Gordon Appleford Lett
E G A Lett
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An account of the resource
56 items. The collection concerns Major Ernest Gordon Appleford Lett, DSO (1910-1989, 50112), a British Army officer and partisan leader in Italy. He was taken prisoner after the fall of Tobruk and detained in different camps in Italy. After the September 1943 armistice, rather than re-joining Allied forces, he took to the mountains and established contacts with Resistance forces active in the Apennines between Liguria and Toscana. Lett founded and led the Battaglione Internazionale, a multinational unit that successfully engaged Black Brigades and German units. Later, when reliable lines of communication were secured, supplies were dropped by air and the Battaglione was supplemented by Special Operations Executive personnel. Gordon Lett was relieved by Major John Henderson in March 1945. After the war, Lett was awarded the DSO and received the Medaglia Argento al valor militare.
The collection consists of a selection of Gordon Lett's papers and official correspondence with key figures of the local Resistance movement. They include Colonnello Mario Fontana (‘Cossu’, or ‘Turchi’), Comandante Luciano Scotti (‘Vittorio’ or ‘Gonzaga’), Commissario Politico Anselmo Corsini ('Ambrosio', or ‘Max’) and Mario Fortelli, a lawyer acting as liaison officer with the local Allied Military Mission.
Documents consist of military assessments, notes on air drops, a ciphers book, a draft of a radio message sent via clandestine radio operators, and a request for tactical bombing. The collection contains notes on an aircraft crash, the military funeral and the subsequent burial of the aircrew. A specific subset includes correspondence, plans and reports about the construction of an improvised landing strip for Allied aircraft operating behind enemy lines.
All documents were deposited at the La Spezia City Council and then re-housed in 1972 at the Istituto spezzino per la Storia della Resistenza e dell’Età Contemporanea, where they have been preserved ever since. The selection published here has been curated by Tiziano Vernazza.
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VOLONTARI DELLA LIBERTÀ
1° DIVISIONE LIGURIA
COMANDO
Zona, li 17/2/45
Prot. N.......
Allegati N......
Oggetto: FONO
AL MAGG. GORDON LETT.
ALLA MISSIONE ALFONSO
Urgentissimo bombardamento ponte Brugnato, ripetiamo ponte Brugnato, e solo ponte.
Urgentissimo bombardamento Batteria [deleted] Racchia di Riomaggiore [/deleted] Racchia di Riomaggiore perchè può sparare anche verso terra.-
Concentramenti truppe alpine e B.N. a La Spezia.-
Per lunedì puntata offensiva per proteggere la strada e rastrellamento bestiame.-
Stamani circa 50 uomini cercavano entrare da Mangia.-
Monte Parodi 10 tedeschi, 1 Mitragliera da 20 mm. 2 mitragliatori.
Bramapan 8 “” “” “” “” “” “” “”
Alle Cinque Terre:nuclei di 15 - 20 alpini e qualche tedesco in ogni paese, a Monterosso arrivati 90 alpini della monterosa al santuario di Soviore (Monterosso) N° 20 alpini con mitragliatrici V1 V2 nulla
Pontremoli a Porta Parma in allestimento stazione trasmittente tedesca, a Pallerone batteria antiaerea di nuovo impianto
A S. Terenzano ancora deposito di munizione rilevante.
VOLONTARI DELLA LIBERTÀ
1° DIVISIONE LIGURIA
COMANDO
Risposta a Nota
del ............................... 19...........
N...........................................
Zona, li, 17/2/45
Prot. N..........................
Allegati N.....................
OGGETTO:.......................
AL MAGG. GORDON LETT; rappr. mill. all.
Egregio Signor Maggiore,
Ieri sera ho avuto un lungo cordiale colowuio col Com.te della Zona circa i compiti a me affidati presso la 1° Divisione Liguria.
Tengo a significarle che ho aderito in tutto per quanto concerne le direttive che pervengono dai C.D.L.N. e dal Comando IV Zona Op.
Come da telefonata del Col. Cossu ho atteso alle cascine rosse il giorno 16 fino alle ore 11 dopo di che ho dovuto andare al campo di lancio perchè in attesa dell’ R.T. e di altro materiale.
Spero di incontrarla presto per poter avere uno scambio di idee sui varii mandati a me affidati.
Le sarei grato ora Signor Magg. Voler disporre cortesemente perchè il campo del Picchiara, rimanga assegnato quale campo di lancio per la 1° Divis. Lig. in quanto esso lo è sempre stato particolarmente per la V° Armata. –Credo che non avrà nulla in contrario per evitare così confusioni di sorta.
Gradisca il mio ossequio.
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La Spezia area situation assessment
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Notes to Major Gordon including a military situation assessment in La Spezia area, with notes on Brugnato, Riomaggiore, Monterosso, Pallerone e San Terenzo. Includes a most urgent request to bomb the Brugnato bridge, and information on improvised airfields and airdrops.
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1945-02-17
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1945-02-17
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Tiziano Vernazza
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Italy. Comitato di Liberazione Nazionale. I Divisione Liguria
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Lett, Gordon
Gordon Lett
Ernest Gordon Appleford Lett
E G A Lett
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An account of the resource
56 items. The collection concerns Major Ernest Gordon Appleford Lett, DSO (1910-1989, 50112), a British Army officer and partisan leader in Italy. He was taken prisoner after the fall of Tobruk and detained in different camps in Italy. After the September 1943 armistice, rather than re-joining Allied forces, he took to the mountains and established contacts with Resistance forces active in the Apennines between Liguria and Toscana. Lett founded and led the Battaglione Internazionale, a multinational unit that successfully engaged Black Brigades and German units. Later, when reliable lines of communication were secured, supplies were dropped by air and the Battaglione was supplemented by Special Operations Executive personnel. Gordon Lett was relieved by Major John Henderson in March 1945. After the war, Lett was awarded the DSO and received the Medaglia Argento al valor militare.
The collection consists of a selection of Gordon Lett's papers and official correspondence with key figures of the local Resistance movement. They include Colonnello Mario Fontana (‘Cossu’, or ‘Turchi’), Comandante Luciano Scotti (‘Vittorio’ or ‘Gonzaga’), Commissario Politico Anselmo Corsini ('Ambrosio', or ‘Max’) and Mario Fortelli, a lawyer acting as liaison officer with the local Allied Military Mission.
Documents consist of military assessments, notes on air drops, a ciphers book, a draft of a radio message sent via clandestine radio operators, and a request for tactical bombing. The collection contains notes on an aircraft crash, the military funeral and the subsequent burial of the aircrew. A specific subset includes correspondence, plans and reports about the construction of an improvised landing strip for Allied aircraft operating behind enemy lines.
All documents were deposited at the La Spezia City Council and then re-housed in 1972 at the Istituto spezzino per la Storia della Resistenza e dell’Età Contemporanea, where they have been preserved ever since. The selection published here has been curated by Tiziano Vernazza.
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A proposito suo biglietto, e le fastidio le più (indicate) di Cesare, ho mandato oggi un messaggio molto secco a nostro quartiere generale. Mi dispiace di farlo, ma io sono molto tuffo di quest’affare.
Io posso assicurarti che tutta la roba lasciata nel campo di Picchiara è la nostra. Il segnale di Richetto è molto differente - si fa la lettera T con fuochi, e la lettera R con lampadina.
Mi sembra che se questa faccenda continua, io sono costretto a [indecipherable word] lasciare in questo, o oltretutto [o altrimenti ?] sarebbe meglio per me andare in un altra zona colla Miseroni [Missione ?] per lanciare.
Si vede che questo Ten. Cino è della stessa opinione di Cesare.
Distinti saluti,
Generale [indecipherable word]
2 – 9 - 44
Caro Signore Colonello,
A proposito il rapporto di Gas, dal comitato di Spezia, Le(i) prego se possibile a tentare a prendere qualche (pregiudizio) [indecipherable word] della Brigata Nera, o Maligna (Monterosa) [?], in questi giorni, per darci informazioni in più. È importantissimo sapere, dal punto di vista degli alleati, se ce(i) sono stati qualche (esponenti) [o esperimenti ?] di questo gas, lanciato da apparecchi, nella zona di Spezia.
Anche se molto sconveniente [riconoscente ?] se Lei può chiedere del (lato) [indecipherable word]
se Lui ha ricevuto i fiali antitifichi [sic] mandato da Cesare qualche giorno fa.
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Letter from Gordon Lett to Mario Fontana
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Letter to Colonnello Mario Fontana from Major Gordon Lett regarding the capture of Black Brigade Fascist militiamen in the La Spezia area. Includes additional notes on the use of gas, and a quarrel over which unit should use supplies recently dropped by Allied aircraft.
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Gordon Lett
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1944-09-02
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Two page handwritten letter
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1944-09
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Tiziano Vernazza
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This content is property of the Istituto spezzino per la Storia della Resistenza e dell’Età Contemporanea which has kindly granted the International Bomber Command Centre Digital Archive a royalty-free permission to publish it. It has been published here ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre.
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isrlaspezia AMb17f1 BIS 3846
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Lett, Gordon
Gordon Lett
Ernest Gordon Appleford Lett
E G A Lett
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An account of the resource
56 items. The collection concerns Major Ernest Gordon Appleford Lett, DSO (1910-1989, 50112), a British Army officer and partisan leader in Italy. He was taken prisoner after the fall of Tobruk and detained in different camps in Italy. After the September 1943 armistice, rather than re-joining Allied forces, he took to the mountains and established contacts with Resistance forces active in the Apennines between Liguria and Toscana. Lett founded and led the Battaglione Internazionale, a multinational unit that successfully engaged Black Brigades and German units. Later, when reliable lines of communication were secured, supplies were dropped by air and the Battaglione was supplemented by Special Operations Executive personnel. Gordon Lett was relieved by Major John Henderson in March 1945. After the war, Lett was awarded the DSO and received the Medaglia Argento al valor militare.
The collection consists of a selection of Gordon Lett's papers and official correspondence with key figures of the local Resistance movement. They include Colonnello Mario Fontana (‘Cossu’, or ‘Turchi’), Comandante Luciano Scotti (‘Vittorio’ or ‘Gonzaga’), Commissario Politico Anselmo Corsini ('Ambrosio', or ‘Max’) and Mario Fortelli, a lawyer acting as liaison officer with the local Allied Military Mission.
Documents consist of military assessments, notes on air drops, a ciphers book, a draft of a radio message sent via clandestine radio operators, and a request for tactical bombing. The collection contains notes on an aircraft crash, the military funeral and the subsequent burial of the aircrew. A specific subset includes correspondence, plans and reports about the construction of an improvised landing strip for Allied aircraft operating behind enemy lines.
All documents were deposited at the La Spezia City Council and then re-housed in 1972 at the Istituto spezzino per la Storia della Resistenza e dell’Età Contemporanea, where they have been preserved ever since. The selection published here has been curated by Tiziano Vernazza.
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Caro Mario
1) Ieri ho ricevuto il messaggio seguente dal Quartiere Generale a proposito dell’organizzazione dei lanci:
“Noi daremo piena responsabilità dei lanci alle Missioni Alleate e i Comandi Unici delle organizzazioni partigiane. Le Missioni Alleate saranno responsabili per il controllo e la distribuzione del materiale lanciato. Il Q.G. ha detto pure che [3 indecipherable words] in ogni zona dove esiste una Missione Militare Alleata; come la mia, non faranno un lancio in grande stile fino che sono sicuri che il capo della Missione e il Comandante Unico della zona avranno pieno ed assoluto controllo di tali lanci. Hanno detto anche che il Comando deve prendere provvedimenti per prevenire distribuzioni illecite e che non [indecipherable word] sono approvate dal capo della Missione Alleata”.
2) A proposito di questo messaggio ho sentito dire che c’é stato un lancio la notte del 6 novembre 44; e sembra che questo lancio sia stato ricevuto e il materiale distribuito[,] ma fino al mezzogiorno di oggi io non ho ricevuto nessun avviso a tal proposito. Non so che materiale é stato ricevuto e a chi é stato distribuito.
3) Si vede che i diversi i diversi Comandanti delle Brigate non capiscono ancora la mia posizione in questa zona, malgrado il fatto che sono stato qui per più di un anno. Vorrei che si facesse sapere una volta per sempre che non sono solamente Ufficiale di Collegamento fra il Comando della I^ Divisione Liguria e il Comando Alleato, ma sono anche capo Missione Militare Alleata, inviata[o] dal Quartiere Generale per aiutare e fare tutto il possibile per la Divisione, e i partigiani di questa zona. I miei compiti sono [underlined] tre [/underlined] : a) inviare tutte le informazioni militari che si possono avere al Comando Alleato tramite radio trasmittente o staffette scelte. b) chiedere ed organizzare i lanci in colaborazione [sic] col Comandante della Divisione per i Patrioti della Divisione stessa. c) fare tutto il possibile per aiutare il Comandante della Divisione nella preparazione del piano militare con scopo unico della riuscita del piano suddetto.
4) Se i comandanti delle diverse Brigate desiderano essere aiutati é necessario che scaccino dalla loro mente i pensieri di sospetto che hanno verso di me e la mia Missione. Io sono a conoscenza per_esempio che nella Colonna Giustizia e Libertà vi sono delle persone che non mi vedono troppo di buon occhio. Questo però non é una cosa importante per conto mio. Se non possiamo dimenticare l’odio personale adesso é inutile proseguire il nostro compito. Sono sicuro che il Comando Alleato resterebbe stupefatto se sapesse che il loro rappresentante , che é stato in questo paese per più di un anno, non ha ancora ricevuto niente da un lancio, ad eccezione di una volta quando dopo aver litigato per più ore sono riuscito a farmi consegnare [indecipherable word] di roba strettamente necessaria, per quegli uomini che mi stanno aiutando.
5) Da parte di quelli che lavorano con la Missione cioé 3 Ufficiali e 6 staffette io devo naturalmente pensare per roba di vestiario, viveri, scarpe ecc. Agli ex-prigionieri di tutte le nazionalità che passano le linee anche devo provvedere per il loro vitto e loro vestizione; poiché si presentano in condizioni di non poter attraversare le linee. Devo pure avere un certo quantitativo di roba per quelle staffette di altra zona che accompagnano i suddetti ex-prigionieri. Questo per incoraggiarli a continuare nella loro missione che é molto importante.
6) Si deve capire che da_oggi in poi da [underlined] ogni lancio [/underlined] [indecipherable word] che si ha in questa zona_il 10% di tutta la roba sganciata dovrà essere messa a mia disposizione o a disposizione del mio rappresentante, se non posso essere presente. Nella percentuale suddetta devo[no] essere incluse anche armi; munizioni ed esplosivo. Naturalmente la distribuzione del lancio alle Brigate interessa più il Comandante della Divisione.
Vi prego caro Mario a fare conoscere questi punti al sig. Colonnello e specialmente ai Comandanti delle Brigate, in special riguardo al Comandante Cino ed ai suoi Ufficiali del Campo di lancio. Io non sono in grado di discutere questa faccenda, e mi [2 indecipherable words] secca di scrivere una tale lettera alla Divisione dopo tanto tempo che lavoro per il benessere della Divisione stessa. La mia pazienza é ormai giunta al colmo per cui se non trovo collaborazione e buona volontà necessaria per me stesso ed i miei uomini io non posso continuare a lavorare in questa zona, ed in tal caso sarò costretto per forza a inviare un rapporto al Quartiere Generale e chiedere lo spostamento della mia Missione in una zona dove si trova quella collaborazione necessaria che invita a lavorare serenamente per la causa bellissima dei patrioti.
Vi ringrazio della carta del Colonnello, che Vi restituisco.
Vi prego dire al Colonnello che ho intenzione di mandare attraverso le linee il Ten. Aldo con informazioni speciali. Egli dovrà partire il giorno I2 p.v.
Può preparare tutti i documenti che intende fare conoscere al Comando Alleato. Vi raccomando anche di stare attenti se arriva una staffetta speciale che ha la_parola d’ordine “VERNAZZA” nel qual caso deve essere subito inviata da da me.
Con molti saluti ed auguri
Gordon Lett, Major
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Air drops in the La Spezia area
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Major Gordon Lett reports to Colonnello Mario Fontana about air drops, including additional notes on operational procedures and an overall assessment of the military situation in the area.
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Gordon Lett
Comando IV zona operativa La Spezia
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1944-11-08
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Tiziano Vernazza
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Four pages typewritten document
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ita
ita
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Civilian
British Army
British Army
Civilian
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Italy
Italy--La Spezia
Italy
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1944-11
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IBCC Digital Archive
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This content is property of the Istituto spezzino per la Storia della Resistenza e dell’Età Contemporanea which has kindly granted the International Bomber Command Centre Digital Archive a royalty-free permission to publish it. It has been published here ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre.
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isrlaspezia AMb4f1 243
Resistance