He began contributing articles and reviews to the newspaper Corriere della Sera among other general interest publications and the French naval annual Flottes de combat in 1937.
He was in the city when the Italians signed the Armistice of Cassibile with the Allies on 8 September and was able to rescue all of his negatives that were in storage at the Navy's Photographic Service.
[1] After the war Fraccaroli began working with the Italian edition of Reader's Digest and publishing articles in the newspapers L'Italia and Il Popolo as well as magazines such as Epoca.
[1] Fraccaroli published his first book in 1946, Marina Militare Italiana 1946, a photographic volume on the Italian warships in service that year and followed it up with a general naval history in 1950, Italian: Dalla piroga alla portaerei, lit.
[2] After moving to Switzerland, he began writing for his local newspaper, Azione, with a column entitled La buona lingua (Speaking Well).