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IVfIORE progress by the sth and Bth Armies to-day’s communique from General E have reached the River Moro line ..

... the Liri Valley, in addition to the heights of Mount Maggiore itself! Fierce fighting for hill masses on Maggiore and Monte Camino continues. The captured peaks are being mopped up. The Germans are fighting stubbornly In rocky burrows at resistance ...

Published: Monday 06 December 1943
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 495 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

RUSSIANS WHEEL

... 25 square miles overlooking the road to Rome, cables an A.P. correspondent at H.Q. Describing the fighting in the vital Monte Camino and Monte Maggiore area, a military commentator declared; “We now, hold the most important features in that area, roughly ...

Published: Tuesday 07 December 1943
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 583 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

sth TAKE KEY Bth 9 MILES PESCARA

... Coccaruzzo. and beyond Camino the Allies have taken the western slopes of Monte Maggiore. Tables turned Monastery Ridge, on Monte Camino. where the tide of The Fifth Army is over the hurnp in its battles through Mount Maggiorc and Mount Camino guarding the ...

Published: Wednesday 08 December 1943
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 421 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

BRITISH RETAKE A

... enemy pockets of resistance the mountain massifs near the centre of the Fifth Army front. “We have captured the summit of Monte Camino, giving our troops observation over enemy positions. Several villages were won. Hard fighting is continuing.” ...

Published: Wednesday 08 December 1943
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 203 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Gain and Loss

... and «- ar shire Infantry are m Italy. German Admission erman News Agency military ha+ eSpondent «:d last night tj. t Monte Camino American ,?Ps gamed some ground. ighting both on the eastern coastal fronts increased Jr> ty yesterday,” he said. i 6 ...

Published: Wednesday 08 December 1943
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 514 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

“FIFTH” TIGHTENS HOLD ON HEIGHTS Bth “closed in action” the capture Mount Camlno summit, announced yesterday. ..

... tightening their grip on the heights overlooking the Liri Valley and the road to Rome. The enemy has been driven from all Monte Camino except one village. David Brown, ifeuter’s correspondent at North African H.Q., says that the Americans have cleared the ...

Published: Thursday 09 December 1943
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 533 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

“COLLAPSE BECOMES CERTAIN, IF..:’

... present time. every day, but always carry- Army captured the summit SO on as it is launched. i •• Y PARASITES ’’ ing on. of Monte Camino, one of the o ne Eighth Army spear-, ••Democracy in country she is a bull-dozer, built in natural sentinels guarding the ...

Published: Thursday 09 December 1943
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 2463 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Strong Forces Engaged

... batches of prisoners amounting to 50 or 80 at time. The 15th Panzer Grenadiers, who bore the brunt of the defence of the Monte Camino-Monte Maggiore area, have been chewed up in the same way as the German 6oth Infantry, which tried to block the Eighth Array’s ...

Published: Monday 13 December 1943
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 310 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

BRINGING BACK THE WOUNDED During the determined battle for Monte Camino, vital barrier on the Allied road to ..

... 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 ...

Published: Friday 17 December 1943
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 58 | Page: 4 | Tags: none