An Italian Fascist Youth "Opera Balilla" Badge Archive but ultimately lived to tell

but ultimately lived to tell the tale after 15 months of hellish imprisonment - an extraordinary story vividly retold by C

from March 8 to April 5

and was taken care of by ladies from Wilmink for the next month

as he was "Gassed" (mustard gas) on November 2

There are light contact marks on the exterior black leather

An Italian Fascist Youth "Opera Balilla" Badge Archive but ultimately lived to tellItaly : Silver, maker marked "S. JOHNSON MILANO" on the reverse, 38 mm, vertical pinback, dark patina, very light contact, extremely fine. Footnote: The Opera Nazionale Balilla (ONB) was an Italian Fascist youth organization functioning between 1926 and 1937, when it was absorbed into the Giovent Italiana del Littorio (GIL), a youth section of the National Fascist Party. It takes its name from Balilla, the nickname of Giovan Battista Perasso, a