FIRST MONDIAL WAR

As recruits and voluntary the castropignanesis participated in the wars of this century (war of Libya, Abissinia and Spain). Many fallen and wounded were had, above all, with her The and the II War World. From the front Russian returned the mythical Molinaro Angelo (died ago a few weeks in Canada). Many is the legionaries of the front Greek-Albanian, of Libya and of Oriental Africa. Numerous they were the prisoners reentered from the South Africa, England, Germany, France and Yugoslavia. The 1 October of the 1943 Castropignano suffered the first aerial bombardment from the Americans, which pursued the German enemy. They remained under the rubbles different persons, between which a whole family: that of the Maddalenas (Pasquale said Marinelli). You his house was shaved to the ground and, subsequently to this bombardment, almost all the population was sheltered in the country and in the lost neighboring. A big bomb fell in the vineyard of Anthony Maddalena. The explosion of this bomb caused, obviously, a depth crater that, after the war it inspired the imagination of the mason Anthony Maddalena, which transformed today still it in a well funzionante. 
Other bomb remained unexploded in C/da Tivone. Another anchor near the Canton The Watch. The airplanes sprouted in the sky of S. Stefano, probably deriving from the aereoporto of Manner, and they veered near Torella Di the Sannio. The bombs had to strike the curve of S. Antuono, place taken of aim to hinder and to delay the retreat of the German troops. With a second bombardment they died Angel JOCCA, Domenico SARDELLA and Rocco SARDELLA, this last you/he/she was struck by a bullet of artillery. After the retreat of the Germans, to be unbeaten in devices remained unexploded, they died and wounds different persons of Castropignano remained between which he also remembers Ensigns to the family. The 24 October of 1943, the Germans destroyed with some mines the houses of GENNARO Evangelista, BORSELLA Valentino, SARDELLA Pasquale and Angel JOCCA. The road Garibaldi was interrupted because of the explosion of a mine under a bridge between the houses of SARDELLA Luigi and MATTIACCI CLAUDINA. The interruption was mended from the allied troops after the retreat of the Germans. These last lasciaronoas Castropignano, still for some day, about ten soldiers waited for with mitragliatrici in the house of Piccinocchi and in the Regions of coasts, of Vallefrane, the forest and Iannaricciola, over that Roccaspromonte. The American troops entered to Castropignano quite a lot days after the constitution of the front Terracina, Cancels, Roccaraso, River Sangro. The country entertained Polish and Canadian soldiers. The population remained extremely amazed for the religiousness of the Polish soldiers.