In August 2024, a team of divers from the Society for the Documentation of Submerged Sites discovered a bronze Roman military helmet on the seafloor off Sicily during an underwater study near the ...
Underwater recovery off the Aegadian Islands in Sicily uncovered a Montefortino-style Roman war helmet. The helmet was likely part of the First Punic War from 241 B.C. Experts call the helmet one of ...
Italian archaeologists discovered a “practically intact” metal battle helmet during a recent search in the Ionian Sea. The Superintendence of the Sea (SopMare), a Sicilian governmental organization ...
In 1943 Vincent Speranza, the son of Italian immigrants, enlisted when he turned 18. "I decided to be a paratrooper when I found out that that would probably be the fastest way to get into the battle, ...