Every February 17 marks the anniversary of the 1943 bombing by U.S. forces, which saw about 100 killed and as many wounded. After the Anglo-American landings in North Africa, inland countries also began to be hit with “displaced persons” from coastal countries. The bombers B25 of 310° Bomb Group, launching over 600 shells on the village. In relation to the number of inhabitants, that of Gonnosfanadiga was one of the civilian death tolls on the same day among the most serious of the entire air war over Italy. The commemoration aims to remember the dead and not to lose their memory. The wall of a house and a gate on Marconi Street that still bear the traces, the Conventions that tell, the monument of the mother mourning her son, want to be the ” not to forget” those tragic events.
