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... 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 ...
... 6 Ounbag p DECEMBER 5. 1943 Monte Camino, Taken By Fifth, Was Key To Rome Road ...
... BRINGING BACK THE WOUNDED During the determined battle for Monte Camino, vital barrier on the Allied road to Rome, stretcher-bearers had to struggle through a hail of mortar fire and through torrential rain Op the three-miles-high mountain to rescue wounded ...
... HARD FIGHTING Monte Camino Vantage Point To-day's Allied communique says:— LAND On the Btli Army front aetlon was continued against the enemy generally along the line the Moro Kiver In the coastal sector. Progress was made m spite of enemy counter-attacks ...
... the mountainous area to the north of Monte Camino. Both British and American troops are engaged tn this attack, which, hammering both flanks of the German defences blocking access to the Capua-Rome highway. Monte Camino stands like sentinel at the entrance ...
... 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 ...
... captured the villages of Camino and Cocuruzzo, says Reuter's special correspondent at Allied HQ, North Africa. The sumnft of Monte Camino has been captured, and our troops have recaptured Monastery Ridge, on the south slopes of Mount Camino, from whichthey ...
... 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 ...
... SUCCESS BY THE FIFTH ARMY IN ITALY WAS GIVEN IN THE ALLIED H.Q., NORTH AFRICA, TODAY. THEY HAVE CAPTURED THE SUMMIT OF MONTE CAMINO, THUS GAINING AN IMPORTANT POINT WHICH COMMANDS THE ROAD TO CASSINO. BRITISH TROOPS OF THE FIFTH ARMY ARE ALSO REPORTED ...
... British possession after a bitter see-saw battle, during which the town changed hands several times in a few days. West of Monte Camino the British yesterday stormed and captured another important height—Monte Croce—and are now forcing the Germans slowly ...
... 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 ...
... WHAT THE WEATHER CAN DO TO THE ITALIAN COUNTRYSIDE This water-logged track leads to a camp in the Fifth Army sector around Monte Camino. The incessant rain and the resultant mud oceans of it have come as an unpleasant surprise to many of our troops, who had ...