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... Battle-weariness of the troops after enduring appalling weather is a considerable factor in the present operations. In the Monte Camino zone, southwest of Mignano, big movements by the enemy were observed, railway centres and airfields at Foligno and Cecina ...
... hills and the high-pitched towns lying further apart. This main fighting has taken place on the south-eastern slopes of the Monte Camino, 3,000 ft. in height. The main position lay about 27 miles south of Mignano. There tho Gormans had dug themselves in were ...
... of their offensive, and this was reinforced by intense bombing. • Infantry had a bloody task climbing up the 2,800 ft. Monte Camino through barbed I wire and minefields to wipe out German machine-gun ncsts, Already long lines of prisoners are making their ...
... 6 Ounbag p DECEMBER 5. 1943 Monte Camino, Taken By Fifth, Was Key To Rome Road ...
... battle of Monte Camino began in frosty I - starlight. Monte Camino is going to be a . name as famous as Longstop Hill was in Tunisia.. It lies crouched like a lion with the flat fertile plain of the Garigliano valley all round it. It is perhaps four miles ...
... They tried to sleep rolled blankets or greatcoats in tone shallow -groove scraped in the rocky But most of the fighting Monte Camino has been done night and no one could sleep within a couple of miles then great artillery barrages. It has been question ...
... sth Army ■.■' OUGHT in mud Instead on sand, in rain instead of sunshine. In mountains instead of limitless desert, the Monte Camino battle has lessons to teach the British in Italy. These arc:— lOur transport is not satisfactory. We have tried out vast ...
... pOssession on the whole of the Monte Camino is a village on the north-western slopes. British troops have completed the mopping up of the mountain massifs with the capture of Monte Croce, two and a half miles east of Monte Camino. West of Monte Croce British ...
... heaviest artillery concentration known so far in the war, blasted the enemy by bayonet charges out ot their positions on Monte Camino, which towers 2800 ft. above the road near Mignano, and opened a deep breach into the enemy winter line. American troops ...
... exchange of artillery and mortar fire is going on. Enemy self-propelled guns have been very active In the area west of Monte Camino and the Monte Maggiore range. German losses, according to prisoners in the Camino-Maggiore bittle, in which Fifth Army ...
... River, twelve miles northward. Long before it OPERATIONS ON THE FIFTH AND EIGHTH ARMY FRONTS: THE FIFTH ARMY BATTLE . FOR MONTE CAMINO. INFANTRY, WITH MORTAR - SUPPORT COMPANIES PASSING THROUGH SHELL-SCARRED S. CLEMENTI TOWARDS CAMINO. can reach either Rome ...
... ARTILLERY IN ACTION BY NIGHT The bombardment by 25-pounders of the Royal Artillery at the start of the big offensive around Monte Camino As the hour for the opening of the new offensive by the Fifth Army drew near, every officer and man was told the plans ...