Alessandria is a strategic military target during…

December 1943 CE

Alessandria is a strategic military target during the Second World War owing to its marshaling yard and the bridges on the Tanaro and Bormida, and is subjected to intense Allied bombing (especially during Operation Strangle), the most serious being the raids of April 30, 1944, with two hundred and thirty-eight dead and hundreds wounded, and April 5, 1945, with one hundred and sixty deaths, among them sixty children from the children's asylum in Via Gagliaudo.

Altogether, five hundred and fifty-nine people are killed by air raids on Alessandria, which destroy or badly damage a thousand buildings.

The city is liberated from the German occupation by the partisan resistance and troops of Brazilian Expeditionary Force on April 19, 1945.

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