24 May 1944(1944-05-24) (aged 51) Parma, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Allegiance
Kingdom of Italy
Service/branch
Regia Marina
Years of service
1911–1943
Rank
Contrammiraglio (Rear Admiral)
Commands held
Giuliana (gunboat)
Tolosetto Farinati (gunboat)
San Marco Battalion
Leros naval base
Battles/wars
World War I
Adriatic Campaign
Battle of Durazzo
Vlora War
Second Italo-Ethiopian War
World War II
Battle of the Mediterranean
Dodecanese Campaign
Battle of Leros
Awards
Silver Medal of Military Valor
Gold Medal of Military Valor (posthumous)
Luigi Mascherpa (15 April 1893 – 24 May 1944) was an Italian admiral during World War II. He led the Italian defense during the Battle of Leros and was later executed by the Italian Social Republic.
LuigiMascherpa (15 April 1893 – 24 May 1944) was an Italian admiral during World War II. He led the Italian defense during the Battle of Leros and was...
Italians and British to surrender. The Italian commander, Rear Admiral LuigiMascherpa, was later executed by RSI authorities, like Campioni. The most tragic...
flagship, the patrol boat Iki, was torpedoed and sunk north of Saipan); LuigiMascherpa, 51, Italian admiral (executed for refusing to collaborate with the...
were also c. 8,500 Italians, mostly naval personnel, under Ammiraglio LuigiMascherpa. Leros had been subjected to air attack by the Luftwaffe beginning...
garrison of Leros numbered about 7,600 men, under the command of Captain LuigiMascherpa. The vast majority of these men – 6,065, plus an additional 697 militarized...
Yugoslavia and Italy fought the Germans. Admirals Inigo Campioni and LuigiMascherpa led an attempt to defend Rhodes, Kos, Leros and other Dodecanese islands...
1878) Matsuji Ijuin, Japanese admiral (killed in action) (b. 1893) LuigiMascherpa, Italian admiral (executed) (b. 1893) Harold Bell Wright, American...
the Admirals' Trial. Campioni and Contrammiraglio (Counter Admiral) LuigiMascherpa were charged with high treason for the supposed crimes of obeying the...
Hall of Fame in 2000. In 1907 Bugatti married Barbara Maria Giuseppina Mascherpa. They had two daughters, L'Ébé in 1903 and Lidia in 1907, and two sons...
a role he held until April 1942, when he was replaced by Captain LuigiMascherpa. In April 1942 he was given command of the destroyer Nicoloso da Recco...
the so-called Admirals' Trial against Admirals Inigo Campioni and LuigiMascherpa, accused of treason by the Italian Social Republic for having resisted...
treni, in I treni 15 (1994), n. 146, pp. 17-25, with a note by Erminio Mascherpa, I non facili primi passi del REC, ibidem, p. 23, P. Franchetto, M. Cerutti...
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