(1880-05-24)24 May 1880 Castiglione delle Stiviere, Kingdom of Italy
Died
9 December 1940(1940-12-09) (aged 60) Nibeiwa, Egypt
Allegiance
Kingdom of Italy
Service/branch
Royal Italian Army
Years of service
1898–1940
Rank
Major General
Commands held
2nd Colonial Brigade 28th "Aosta" Infantry Division Maletti Group
Battles/wars
World War I Pacification of Libya Second Italo-Abyssinian War World War II
Western Desert Campaign
Invasion of Egypt
Operation Compass †
Pietro Maletti (24 May 1880 – 9 December 1940) was an Italian General and war criminal who participated in World War I, the Italian colonization of Libya, the Second Italo-Abyssinian War, and World War II. He was killed in action during the early stages of the North Africa Campaign.
PietroMaletti (24 May 1880 – 9 December 1940) was an Italian General and war criminal who participated in World War I, the Italian colonization of Libya...
bishop Pierre François Maletti (1564–1631), Italian Roman Catholic prelate PietroMaletti (1880–1940), Italian military officer Maletti Group, an ad hoc mechanised...
Divisioni Libiche) had the part-motorised and lightly armoured Maletti Group (General PietroMaletti), the 1st Libyan Division (Major-General Luigi Sibille)...
The Maletti Group (Italian: Raggruppamento Maletti) was an ad hoc mechanised unit formed by the Italian Royal Army (Regio Esercito) in Italian North Africa...
invasion of Egypt began in September 1940, the Maletti Group, [Raggruppamento Maletti, Major-General PietroMaletti], lacking experience of desert conditions...
needed] PietroMaletti: During the Italian occupation of Ethiopia, Between May 18 and May 22, 1937, Italian and Libyan troops under the command of Maletti massacred...
and Somali askaris (45th Muslim Colonial Battalion) led by General PietroMaletti executed 297 monks and 23 laymen. Three days later they would mow down...
the 324 L3/35 tankettes already in Libya. The Maletti Group/Raggruppamento Maletti (General PietroMaletti) was formed at Derna the same day, with seven...
Colonel Riccardo Bignami) near Solluch. The Maletti Group (Raggruppamento Maletti General PietroMaletti) was formed at Derna the same day as the main...
transported in trucks and was commanded by the unit's namesake, General PietroMaletti. This partly motorized unit took part in the Italian invasion of Egypt...
Graziani sent a flying column under Colonel PietroMaletti to catch and harass the fleeing Ethiopians. Maletti caught up with the Ethiopians only to have...
Italian aviator and founding Chief of Staff of the Italian Air Force PietroMaletti, Italian Major General Riccardo Fedel, Italian guerilla leader and political...
groups, Maletti destroyed a report concerning the Padua cell of Ordine Nuovo and arranged for potential witnesses to leave the country. Maletti subsequently...
action was postponed till May and ended up being carried out by General PietroMaletti instead. Tracchia was awarded a further two Silver Medals of Military...
commissioned. John Philip Sousa Bridge opened in Washington, D.C. Died: PietroMaletti, 60, Italian military officer (killed in action in North Africa) The...
Giuseppe Acquaviva, Titular Archbishop of Thebae (1621); Pierre François Maletti, Bishop of Nice (1622); Carlo Bovi, Bishop of Bagnoregio (1622); Marco...
and the radicalization of young people. The Vatican's secretary of state, Pietro Parolin, raised the issue of climate change and encouraged Trump to remain...
needed a foreign war to distract public opinion. Other historians such as Pietro Pastorelli have argued that the invasion was launched as part of an expansionist...
led to the conquest of gulf of Sidra, and linking the two colonies. 1929: Pietro Badoglio becomes a unique governor of Tripolitania and Cyrenaica. Beginning...
Italian Libyan Colonial Division Italian Somali Divisions (101 and 102) Maletti Group Legione Redenta Italian guerrilla units (A.O.I.) Currencies and Stamps...
Lowe, C.J. Italian Foreign Policy 1870-1940. Routledge. 2002. Maravigna, Pietro. Come abbiamo perduto la guerra in Africa. Le nostre prime colonie in Africa...
experience. When Italian troops advanced into Egypt in September 1940, the Maletti Group got lost leaving Sidi Omar and had to be found by aircraft. In spring...