Our Italian American Club in Baltimore Maryland, USA was named after Umberto Nobile. seeing his name again brings back some very nice memories.

Zanna, My family comes from the same area. I still have cousins in Bolzano and the village of Falcade, in the Dolomites, southern Tyrol. My name sounds German, but my ancestors lived in Falcade for many centuries and no one in the village speaks German...only Italian. The area changed hands quite a ...