8th Army Battle Forward In Snow

... heavy barrage. Further south, a ding-dong battle has been going on for three days for the south-eastern slopes of 3000-feet Monte Camino. The Germans are disputing every inch of the ground. SAVAGE COUNTER-ATTACKS. British Fifth Army troops which seized these ...

Published: Sunday 14 November 1943
Newspaper: Sunday Post
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 405 | Page: 16 | Tags: none

ALLIES ARE BOGGED DOWN IN ITALY Axis Offensive Stories Are Propaganda

... was gained, in spite of very heavy German artillery tire. There s - as a fair amount of enemy move trent in the area of Monte Camino. south-west of Mignano. which was heavily shelled by Allied artillery. In the lower reaches of the Garigliano nver. German ...

Published: Tuesday 23 November 1943
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 396 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

MUD BOGS DOWN ALLIES

... more ground was gained in spite very heavy German artillery Are. There was a fair amount of enemy movement in the area of Monte Camino, south-west of Mignano. which was heavily shelled bv Allied artillery. The left flank of the Eighth Army has captured Alfedena ...

Published: Tuesday 23 November 1943
Newspaper: Gloucester Citizen
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 318 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

4Allies more active along Italian winter line CANADIANS HOLD HEIGHTS AGAINST GERMAN ATTACK

... 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 ...

Published: Wednesday 24 November 1943
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 350 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

The London Letter

... Front reporter has just described for Germans at home what he called the failure of the third British attempt to capture Monte Camino. This, he said, had been carried out by the Grenadier Guards and, when they had been wiped out, the Royal Scots and ...

Published: Wednesday 01 December 1943
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 677 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

FIGHTING THROUGH ITALY

... 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 ...

Published: Saturday 04 December 1943
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 935 | Page: 17 | Tags: Illustrations 

THE JUNGLE

... cables David Brown. Reuter's Special Correspondent. Short advances have b ...

Published: Saturday 04 December 1943
Newspaper: Shields Daily News
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 1384 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

North cf Mignano

... 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 ...

Published: Saturday 04 December 1943
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 161 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

IMPORTANT POSITIONS TAKEN

... Army gains are two miles deep at some attack points. Short advances have been made in the mountainous area to the north of Monte Camino. Both British and American troops are engaged in this attack, which is hammering both flanks of the German defences; blocking ...