Alfeo Brandimarte

Alfeo Brandimarte (31 January 1906 – 4 June 1944) was an Italian naval officer and Resistance member during World War II.

Born in the province of Ancona in 1906, he graduated in mechanical engineering in 1928, specializing in electronics, and on the following year he joined the Royal Italian Army as a second lieutenant.

In 1937, he was transferred to the newly conquered Addis Ababa to restore the local radio station, after which he returned to Italy to take up the post of deputy director of the Naval Academy's Electrotechnical Institute.

[10][11][12][13] After the armistice of Cassibile and the German occupation of Italy he became part of the Clandestine Military Front in German-occupied Rome, where he was responsible for establishing radio links with the Allies.

On the evening of 3 June 1944, as the Allied forces were about to enter Rome, he was loaded by the Germans on a truck together with other thirteen prisoners, including General Pietro Dodi and former Socialist deputy Bruno Buozzi, in a convoy heading north along the Via Cassia.