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Letter by “Malocello” Vessel Commander on letterhead.

medal for valour at that time, for rescuing sailors stranded in flooded
compartments, taking onto lifeboats other wounded sailors, and giving his
own life jacket to another sailor; after saving all of his sailors, realizing he
was the last one left, he sank with the remains of the destroyer Malocello.