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    • General 'Aquila 1' Ferruccio Brandi: the myth beyond the legend
    • Archangel St Michael: the Patron Saint of Parachutists
    • The Songs of the Folgore Parachutists
    • Parachutist General Giuseppe Palumbo: THE FOLGORE MAN
    • My Brigade: The (real) story of a Folgore paratrooper
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    • 4th Alpine Parachute Regiment
    • 185TH RRAO 'Folgore'
    • 3rd Special Operations Helicopter Regiment Aldebaran
    • Special Intervention Group (GIS)
    • 1st Carabinieri Parachute Regiment 'Tuscania
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