Tancredi Fassini

Tancredi Fassini-Camossi (27 December 1900 – 4 September 1943) was an Italian professional ice hockey defense who played for the Italian national team.

[1][2] Fassini served as an engineer and pilot in the Regia Aeronautica during the Second World War.

[1] On 4 September 1943, after hearing about the death of his mother at Pisa in an Allied bombing raid 5 days earlier, Fassini took off in a stolen aircraft to fly to Pisa.

[1] During the flight, he crashed and was killed.

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