El Alamein: 2:00 PM. The remnants of the Folgore, huddled together, fire their last seven .47-caliber shells and exhaust the last 20-caliber magazine. Colonel Luigi Camosso decides to surrender. Major Zanninovich, standing at attention, presents his forces to the colonel: “32 officers, 272 troops.” Five thousand had departed from Italy. After the surrender, the enemy salutes the 306 Italian prisoners. It is 4:35 PM on November 6, 1942.
