On 13 September elements of the Free French 4th Moroccan Mountain Division were landed in Ajaccio to support the Italian efforts to stop the 30,000 retreating German troops.
More CAMS 53 were soon ordered by these operators as well as Air Union, and the aircraft were used to link Marseilles with Ajaccio and Beirut.
In October 1943, Bennions commanded a Ground control interception unit that was sent ashore at Ajaccio on Corsica.
When he recovered Lowe returned to Corsica, and was stationed in the citadel at Ajaccio as an aide to the Governor Colonel Wauchope close to where Napoleon Bonaparte's sisters had recently been living before they fled to mainland France.
He spent his childhood and youth traveling throughout Europe and Brazil (Ajaccio, Stuttgart, Rotterdam, São Paulo were some of the cities where he lived).
The narrator, Cartwright, had made with his friend Dagger a fairly pointless art film/documentary using loaned professional equipment, with scenes set in Stonehenge, Hyde Park, and other locations in England, plus one scene in Ajaccio, Corsica.
Both of them had family roots in Ajaccio, Corsica, of Genoese ancestry, who often traveled to Portugal.
On December 1, 1981, Inex-Adria Aviopromet Flight 1308, an MD-81 crashed into Corsica's Mt. San Pietro during a holding pattern for landing at Campo dell'Oro Airport, Ajaccio.
Paul Vecchiali (born April 28, 1930 in Ajaccio, Corsica, France) is a French author and filmmaker.
Tasked with the naval preparations of the French campaign in Egypt and Syria, Forfait prepared 15 ships of the line, 14 frigates, 72 lesser warships and 400 transports in Toulon, Genoa, Ajaccio and Civitavecchia.
Pompeo Giustiniani was born in 1569 in Ajaccio.
The last vehicle rolled into an LCT at 1525, prompting the landing ship to raise the ramp, close the bow doors and join a convoy bound for Ajaccio, Corsica.
Ajaccio | Gazélec Ajaccio | Ajaccio - Campo dell'Oro Airport |
Located 600 m above sea level, the chateau offers a breathtaking view of Ajaccio up to the entrance of the Gulf of Porto over the surrounding mountains and over Monte Cinto, the highest mountain in Corsica (2706 m).
He was born at Alata, near Ajaccio, of a noble Corsican family, four years before the island became a French possession.
The department hit the head-lines at the end of the twentieth century with the assassination at Ajaccio of the prefect Claude Érignac on 6 February 1998.
The village of Cristinacce is constructed on a rocky knoll at an altitude of 830m at the foot of the Col de Sevi (1100m), 70 km north of Ajaccio and 35 km from Sagone.
Salaun's report indicated that the island's capital, Ajaccio, was relatively well-defended by old 120mm field guns, but that the areas on Bonifacio in the south and Bastia in the north were vulnerable to amphibious assault.
Married at Ajaccio, 25 June 1763 Nicola Luigi Paravisini, Chancellor of the City of Ajaccio (ca 1739, Ajaccio – 8 May 1813, Ajaccio).
From Vizzavona, the train can be taken to Bastia or Ajaccio as well as many smaller towns and villages such as Corte.
The irredentist Marco Angeli di Sartèna wrote the first book in "Corso" (titled Terra còrsa) in 1924 and many lyrics (titled Malincunie) in Ajaccio.
Jean-Baptiste Pierazzi (born June 17, 1985 in Ajaccio) is a French football midfielder who currently plays for San Jose Earthquakes.
On the 6th of February 1998 at 9:05 pm, the prefect of Corsica, Claude Érignac, was assassinated as he exited a theatre onto rue Colonna-d'Ornano in Ajaccio.