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participated in the Second Italo-Ethiopian War, earning a promotion to colonel and the Knight's Cross of the
Military Order of Savoy. During World War II, Buttà took part in the Battle of the Western Alps and the Greco-Italian War, receiving another War Cross for Military Valor. He was promoted to brigadier general in 1941 and major general in 1943. After the proclamation of the armistice of Cassibile, Buttà's division refused to surrender to the Germans and evacuated most of their troops to Apulia.
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and Cruda, which resisted. On 16 September, in the face of intensifying German air and ground attacks and the lack of air support or reinforcements, General Buttà ordered to requisition all vessels in Kotor (five steamers and a dozen smaller vessels) to carry his troops to
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256:Biography
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398:and the
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