GROUPING OF PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN DURING THE DEATH OF MUSSOLINI, APRIL 28, 1945

This is a grouping of 7 original pictures, 5 from the day Benito Mussolini was killed. 2 additional photo's of the U.S. soldier who's album this came from and an newspaper article he clipped one year later.

Benito Mussolini, the deposed Italian fascist dictator, was summarily executed by an Italian partisan in the village of Giulino di Mezzegra in northern Italy on 28 April 1945.  He and his mistress, Claretta Petacci, were captured on 27 April by local partisans near the village of Dongo on Lake Como. Mussolini and Petacci were executed the following afternoon, along with several of his henchmen, two days before Adolf Hitler's suicide.