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Livio Zannoni,Gold Medal for Military Valor, Aviator, Photographer and Italian Eastern Africa’s hero. By Stefano Colombaro (Translated by Leonardo Pavese) Livio Zannoni (Faenza, RA, 1909 — Degehabur, Ethiopia 1935) was an Italian soldier and aviator who was awarded the Gold Medal for Military Valor during the Italo-Ethiopian War (1935-1936). He was born in Faenza, Province of Ravenna, on 10/11/1909, the second of four brothers. The family ran a grains trade that allowed them a comfortable living. Livio had just started high school, which was set up within the local Catholic Ssminary, when his older brother Mario Giacomo, who was still very young, was among the first to join the new Fascist movement. Mario Giacomo participated in several demonstrative expeditions of the Fascist squads, which made him the target of possible retaliations on the part of th...