In 1937 he was conscripted into the Regia Marina as a second-class ordinary41 and, not long after his discharge, he had been recalled to arms at the beginning of hostilities. On March 28, 1941 he had ended up torn to pieces by a British broadside on the deck of the cruiser where he served as a gunman, during the naval battle at Cape Matapan between the Italian fleet and the Mediterranean fleet, Anglo-Australian, which was superior not only because of the thicker armor of the battleships, but because it was equipped with radar and a Navy airforce. Unlike Gennaro, young Giuseppe had been a good scholar and, being much more intelligent, he had managed to graduate as a surveyor thanks to his personal ambition, his own effort and the financial support of his father and mother who, having discov
