Giuseppe Morante
Italian naval officer (1909-1992)
Giuseppe Morante (Benevento 19 May 1909 – Rome 8 April 1992) was a lieutenant commander (and later Division Admiral) known for his role in the Japanese-Italian War. He was in charge of the command of the Italian ironclad Lepanto, alongside his second in command, Guglielmo Stevens. He made the decision to sink the ironclad alongside the presence of Roberto De Leonardis.
Biography and career
He was born in Benevento on 19 May 1909. He started to study in the Italian Naval Academy in Livorno in 1925 (at age 16), and managed to gain the rank of midshipman in 1930 (at age 21). The very first battleship he served in was the Italian battleship Duilio, a dreadnought. He was later assigned as a second lieutenant on the Italian destroyer Luca Tarigo and during his service there, on 8 April 1932, in the Tyrrhenian Sea, he rescued up to three shipwrecked individuals in a situation of rough sea, earning him the Silver Medal for Naval Valor. Starting from 1933 he was part of the academy of aerial observation of Taranto. He was promoted to the rank of lieutenant in 1935, and in the same year he was sent to fight on the support ship Antonio Pacinotti in the Second Italo-Ethiopian War. In January 1939 he was sent to China, where he was given the role of second in command commander and later commander.
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