Mario Bonetti
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3 March 1888 Arezzo, Tuscany, Italy |
| Died | 16 February 1961 (aged 72) Genoa, Ligury, Italy |
| Allegiance |
 Kingdom of Italy
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| Service/branch |
 Regia Marina
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| Years of service | 1906–1947 |
| Rank | Contrammiraglio (Rear Admiral) |
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Mario Bonetti (March 3, 1888 – February 16, 1961) was an Italian admiral during World War II.
Mario Bonetti was born in Arezzo in 1888 and entered the Italian Naval Academy in Leghorn in 1906, graduating in 1909 with the rank of Ensign. His first assignments were on armored cruisers Pisa and San Marco; during the Italo-Turkish War Bonetti distinguished himself in command of landing parties in Derna and Tobruk, receiving the War Cross for Military Valor.
During World War I, Bonetti served for 21 months on submarines with the rank of Lieutenant, first on submarines F 7 and F 13 and later in command of F 10; during this period he received a Silver Medal of Military Valor. Later in the war he became executive officer of the destroyer Ardito , and he received a commendation for an action in September 1917.
From 1920 to 1926 Bonetti, with the rank of Lieutenant Commander, commanded the hydrographic survey vessel Ammiraglio Magnaghi during various hydrographic campaigns in the seas of Italy (except for one year when he was attached to the Hydrographic Office in Genoa), and later the submarine N 3. In 1923 he graduated in nautical sciences and hydrography. In 1927 he was promoted to Commander and given command of the scout cruiser Quarto, and then of submarines Balilla and Antonio Sciesa . Afterwards, he directed for three years the Hydrographic Institute, before being promoted to Captain returned to the command of Ammiraglio Magnaghi and of the Hydrographic Survey Vessel Group which from 1934 to 1938 carried out several hydrographic campaigns in Red Sea.
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