Salvatore Bruno Todaro (16 September 1908 – 14 December 1942) was an Italian naval officer and submariner during World War II.

He was then assigned to the headquarters of the Ionian and Southern Adriatic Naval Department in Taranto in 1931, and on the heavy cruiser Trieste on the following year.

[1][3][2] On the night of 16 October 1940, during its first Atlantic patrol off the island of Madeira, Cappellini sighted the Belgian steamer Kabalo (5,186 tons), carrying aircraft spare parts, and after unsuccessfully firing three torpedoes, sank her with its deck gun.

On 5 January 1941, in the stretch of ocean between the Canary Islands and the African coast, Cappellini attacked the 5,029-ton British armed steamship Shakespear, sinking her after a prolonged gun duel in which an Italian gunner was killed.

The damage forced Todaro to seek refuge in Puerto de La Luz on Gran Canaria; after hasty repairs that lasted three days, Cappellini sailed again on 23 January 1941 and returned to Bordeaux.

On 13 December 1942, while returning from one such operation, he was killed in his sleep when the armed trawler Cefalo, used as mothership for assault craft, was strafed by a Supermarine Spitfire off La Galite.