The Battle of Monte Cassino, also known as the Battle for Rome, was a series of four military assaults by the Allies against German forces in Italy during...
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Monte Cassino (today usually spelled Montecassino) is a rocky hill about 130 kilometres (80 mi) southeast of Rome, in the Latin Valley, Italy, 2 kilometres...
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Liri rivers. The city is best known as the site of the Abbey of Montecassino and the Battle of Monte Cassino during World War II, which resulted in huge Allied...
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The Battle of Monte Cassino order of battle for January 1944, is a listing of the significant formations involved in the fighting on the Winter Line January...
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The Monument to the Battle of Monte Cassino (Polish: Pomnik Bitwy o Monte Cassino w Warszawie) is a monument in Warsaw, Poland located in the square between...
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Monte Cassino holds the graves of 1,072 Poles who died storming the bombed-out Benedictine abbey atop the mountain in May 1944, during the Battle of Monte...
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cemeteries near the theatres of operations. During the Battle of Monte Cassino, Cassino saw some of the fiercest fighting of the Italian Campaign, the town...
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Marocchinate (redirect from Rape during the occupation of Italy)
World War II after the Battle of Monte Cassino in Italy. These were committed mainly by the Moroccan Goumiers, colonial troops of the French Expeditionary...
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Second Battle of Monte Cassino order of battle February 1944 is a listing of the significant formations involved in the fighting on the Winter Line in...
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Wojtek (bear) (category Battle of Monte Cassino)
the 22nd Artillery Supply Company. During the Battle of Monte Cassino in 1944, Wojtek helped move crates of ammunition and became a celebrity with visiting...
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Corps who fought in the battle of Monte Cassino and the battles for Piedimonte and Passo Corno. After the capture of Monte Cassino in May 1944, the Polish...
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2nd Polish Corps (Polish Armed Forces in the West) (category Corps of Poland in World War II)
in particular at the Battle of Monte Cassino. By the end of 1945, the corps had grown to well over 100,000 soldiers. Victims of Soviet deportations from...
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composed in May 1944 in Italy, during the Battle of Monte Cassino, on the eve of the Polish Army's capture of the German stronghold. In early 1944 a German...
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The Green Devils of Monte Cassino (German: Die grünen Teufel von Monte Cassino) is a 1958 French–German war film directed by Harald Reinl and starring...
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of Rome or the Battle of Rome, a 1944 battle during WWII Battle of Monte Cassino or Battle of Rome Search for "battle of rome" on Wikipedia. Battle for...
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and tablecloths of Veroli and Boville Ernica and the religious vestments produced in Anagni. The day following the Battle of Monte Cassino, Goumiers rampaged...
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Kesselring. The series of three lines was designed to defend a western section of Italy, focused around the town of Monte Cassino, through which ran the...
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10th Army (Wehrmacht) (category Field armies of Germany in World War II)
Line" at the Battle of San Pietro Infine and the Battle of Monte Cassino, before finally surrendering near the Alps. Among its troops at Cassino were the...
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turning point. The Allied advance through Italy had bogged down around Monte Cassino, which was a crucial point in the Axis defensive position known as the...
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Ulica Bohaterów Monte Cassino (lit. 'Heroes of Monte Cassino Street') is the main street of Sopot, Poland, running west to east from Aleja Niepodległości...
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surrounding the village of Gemmano. Fighting was so fierce, similar to that of the famous battle of Monte Cassino, that the battle was sometimes referred...
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the town of San Pietro Infine, just south of Monte Cassino about halfway between Naples and Rome. The eventual Allied victory in the battle was crucial...
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Piotra Sych (category Members of the Rada of the Belarusian Democratic Republic)
Corps. He was wounded four times, and was a participant of the famous Battle of Monte Cassino. After the war he spent some time in England before moving...
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St. Mary's Trumpet Call (category National symbols of Poland)
announce the Polish victory in the Battle of Monte Cassino on 18 May 1944. Historical records show that the practise of playing the Hejnał has been cancelled...
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was a Benedictine abbot of Monte Cassino who is venerated as a saint and martyr. He was also a poet and a writer. A member of the Lombard nobility, Bertharius...
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S. VI Corps had been reinforced to a strength of seven divisions. In the Fourth Battle of Monte Cassino (also known as Operation Diadem), a concerted...
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Frank Jefferson (category British Army personnel of World War II)
It was awarded for his actions at the Battle of Monte Cassino in mid-1944 during the gruelling Italian campaign of the Second World War. Jefferson was 22...
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3rd Carpathian Rifle Division (Poland) (category Infantry divisions of Poland in World War II)
notably the Battle of Monte Cassino, the dash for Ancona and Bologna. After the cessation of hostilities in May 1945, the men and women of the Polish Armed...
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army of about half a million men. This multi-racial army was first thrown into battle in Italy in 1943 - it fought at the Battle of Monte Cassino - then...
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Theater of Operations. 17: The first Battle of Monte Cassino begins when the British X Corps attacks along the Garigliano river at the western end of the...
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