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Vittorio Veneto

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Vittorio Veneto (vēt-tô`ryō vānĕ`tō), town (1991 pop. 29,231), Venetia, NE Italy, in the Alpine foothills. It is a secondary industrial and commercial center and a spa. There, in Oct.–Nov., 1918, the Italians won a decisive victory over the Austrians, which led to the Austro-Hungarian surrender to Armando Diaz on Nov. 3.
Vittorio Veneto 

a populated area near Venice, Italy, near which the Austro-Hungarian army surrendered at the end of World War I. On Oct. 25, 1918, the Allies (51 Italian, three English, two French, and one Czechoslovak division with 7,700 guns) broke through the Piave River front of the Austro-Hungarian Army (63 divisions of weak composition with 6,300 guns), and on October 30 they came to the Vittorio-Veneto-Sesana-Feltre front. At the same time, an Italian landing force took Trieste. Having lost its combat ability, the Austro-Hungarian Army surrendered, and a truce was signed on Nov. 3, 1918, in Padua.
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Walk along Via Po through Piazza Vittorio Veneto and you reach Palazzo Castello, which you'll recognise from the film.
Trail of the ITALIAN JOB; Cinema crime caper The Italian Job is 40 ... by Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England)
It was carrier planes from HMS Formidable, one of the new 22,500ton carriers that crippled the Italian battleship Vittorio Veneto in a fierce Naval action off Cape Matapan on 28 March 1941.
THE ROYAL NAVY'S Fleet Air Arm IN WWII by Owen Gault / Sea Classics
43) When the last Swordfish attack was complete, Italy's serviceable battleships had been reduced from six to two--only Vittorio Veneto and Giulio Cesare had escaped damage--and all of this had been accomplished at the cost of only two Swordfish shot down.
Tactical success, operational failure by Caravaggio, Angelo N. / Naval War College Review
 
 
 
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