| Title | Gherardi, Giannino |
| Family Name | Gherardi |
| Given Name(s) | Giannino |
| Gender | Male |
| Full Biographical Data | Giannino Gherardi (1908-1995) from S. Pellegrino (Bergamo).He arrived in Douglas in the middle of the night on September 30, 1943, after taking an 18-day ocean voyage from Oran, Algeria to Norfolk, Virginia, and then a 78-hour train ride across the United States terrain. On April 9, 1944 (on Easter Sunday) he left Douglas and was transferred to Italian Service Unit (ISU) camps, first to Pine Camp, New York and then to Camp Kilmer, New Jersey, where he stayed until the war’s end |
| Birth Date | 1908 |
| Country Of Birth | Italy |
| Place Of Birth | S.Pellegrino |
| Journey | Italy |
| Oran |
| Norfolk |
| Douglas |
| Pine Camp |
| Camp Kilmer |
| Italy |
| Bibliographic Citation | Gherardi, Giannino. 2020. “Memorie della mia vita di prigioniero,” Ermanno Arrigoni, Ed. in Voci dal Inferno: Lettere, diari, memoriali, testimonianze e immagini di soldati della valle Brembana durante la Seconda guerra mondiale, Tarciso Bottani, Ed. Corponove |
| Ruberto, Laura E. “Giannino Gherardi nel Wyoming, tra la Madonnina e la storia,” Quaderni Brembani, 20, 2021, 69-77. |
| Linked From | Madonna del Dito |
