61 Years Later, POW Recognized


06 September, 2005

Reno vet receives Nevada Prisoner of War Medal

Sixty-one years after his capture by German forces in France during World War Two, a Reno man has received the Nevada Prisoner of War Medal.

Retired Sergeant Major Ensio Tosolini received the award during a ceremony Friday at the Office of the Adjutant General in Carson City.

The eighty-year-old Tosolini was serving with the Army in France in 1944 when he and others were captured by a German patrol while trying to bring supplies to front-line troops.

German soldiers took away all of his weapons but missed one thing: a hand grenade he had tucked in the bottom of a pant leg. Tosolini escaped after later tossing it into the group of Germans.

After World War Two, Tosolini went on to serve in the US Army Reserve and Nevada National Guard. He held the guard's highest non-commissioned rank of sergeant major from 1968 to 1978.
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