Calling all marchigiani

but I trust that this will help you. There is, according to the Comune site, "2 Corsi d'Acqua": Fiume Aso and Torrente Indaco. http://www.comuni-italiani.it/109/029/ There is also a Country house in the area called: Colle Indaco, which is next to the torrente.

Thanks Gala - that's what I thought.  An American connection has started a corresp0ondence with a lady from ortezzano (now living in Rome) whose family hid his father after he had escaped from PoW camp.  He's done a Googletranslate on teh letters, which isn't bad but there are some confusions, one of which was "mio padre si affacciò controllando la situazione, mentre mio fratello Duilio li aiutò a scappare accompagnandoli presso un fiume nelle vicinanze dell'Indaco per non farli trovare, ma da quel momento non abbiamo avuto più notizie loro" which Google had as "while my brother Duilio helped the men to escape to a nearby river, and then led then to where the indigo could not find them. From then on we had no more news of them." Not bad - but I was pretty sure it was actually referring to the river Indaco (not sure how different a "torrente" is)

Anne, here are two good explanations of both "fiume" and "torrente" http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiume http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torrente For instance, our watermill is on the "Torrente Lima", which feeds into the Sercchio, which is a "fiume". Looking at the Italian text, I would say that they are talking about the River Aso, which would be near the Torrente Indaco. Actually, the "torrente" would lead to the river: "un fiume nella vicinanze dell'Indaco". And that should make sense.

"My father kept a look out out while my brother Duilio helped them escape by leading them to a river close to the Indaco in order to escape detection, but we have had no news of them since"

Thanks Raggio.  To complete the story, the son Duilio and his little brother both emigrated to Argentina after the War and both died "in mysterious circumstances" in the mid 1950s.  Their remaining sister, Rita, is very pleased to have heard from the American, since his Dad seems to have kept up a correspondence with Duilio which he has now shared with her, giving her a bit more information about his last years.