On June 21, 1943, the allied aviation dropped on Battipaglia its first terrible load of bombs, so the long martyrdom of the city began.
“Here at Battipaglia we had an Italian Guernica, a town transformed in a matter of seconds to an heap of rubbles.”
Norman Lewis, Naples ’43
Since 2017, the MuBat cultural association has been organizing the dutiful remembrance of all the civilian victims of Battipaglia during the Second World War, starting with the fallen of June 21, 1943. The initiative is part of the larger project to preserve the Memory of Operation Avalanche