Locals grab up tickets for Italian POW commemoration

Oct 14, 2015 532

By Vicky Taylor

The community's response to the Italian Heritage Event planned later this month to commemorate and remember contributions of Italian prisoners who worked at Letterkenny Army Depot during World War II has been so positive that tickets to the centerpiece luncheon and program are almost sold out already.

David Sciamanna said Wednesday organizers are pleased with local response to the event, which will see almost two dozen descendants of the former POWs travel to from Italy to Chambersburg to see the place where their fathers and grandfathers lived and worked as part of an Italian Service Unit while they were prisoners of war here during World War II.

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Source: http://www.publicopiniononline.com/

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