Refine Search

Capture Of Monte Croce

... 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 ...

Published: Friday 10 December 1943
Newspaper: Liverpool Daily Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 115 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

EIGHTH

... Army is to-night sharpening its threat to the complete German line. Troops on the five positions seized on the heights of Monte Camino and Maggiore now imperil the Mignano gap with an outflanking move. Steady pressvir® is beiixg maintained against the mountain ...

Published: Tuesday 07 December 1943
Newspaper: Liverpool Daily Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 132 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

LIMITED AIR ACTIVITY

... Valley, in addition to the heights of Mount Maggiore itself, says Reuter. Fierce fighting for hill passes on Maggiore and Monte Camino continues. The captured peaks are being mopped- G ermans are fighting stubbornly in rocky burrows at isolated resistance ...

Published: Monday 06 December 1943
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 186 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Bth ARMY THREATEN THREE TOWNS Triple Thrust Towards Port Of Pescara HILL POSITIONS GAINED BY FIFTH ARMY THE ..

... barring the road to Rome. Progress In The Mountains South of the road British troops, after capturing Monte Croce, west of Monte Camino, are driving the Germans back to the east bank of the Garigliano. The broad valley of the river offers access beyond its ...

Published: Friday 10 December 1943
Newspaper: Liverpool Daily Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 535 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

BRITISH SUCCESSES

... and western upland fringes. We now command the Liri Valley. NO-MAN’S-LAND STRUGGLE The troops who captured the summit of Monte Camino and the village of Camino, commanding the road to Cassino, also occupied the two villages df Acquapendula and Cocuruzzo ...

Published: Wednesday 08 December 1943
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 188 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

GERMANS PREPARE RETREAT

... exhibition destruction and demolition. , General Clark’s troops have captured a considerable amount of war material in. tho Monte Camino heights, including guns, machineguns, mortars and ammunition. Prisoners continue to trickle in. The Germans still hold ...

Published: Friday 10 December 1943
Newspaper: Liverpool Evening Express
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 203 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Hand-To-Hand Fighting

... most dominating positions in an area of 25 square miles overlooking the road to Rome. 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: Liverpool Evening Express
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 265 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

ACROSS MORO

... another height on Monte Maggiore, advancing abcut mile, and now hold most of the strategic heights in the Monte Mfggiore and Monte Camino areas. Most ot the important features Mounts Camino and Magiore have now been occupied by the Fifth Army, it is officially ...

Published: Tuesday 07 December 1943
Newspaper: Liverpool Evening Express
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 693 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

ter’s Special Correspondent

... Correspondent There was some sharp skirmishing in the neighbourhood of the village of Rocca Devandxo, two miles north-west of Monte Camino. Axis fighters were out over the Fifth Army front in greater numbers yesterday than for considerable period, it, is estimated ...

Published: Monday 13 December 1943
Newspaper: Liverpool Daily Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 295 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

MOUNT CAMINO

... pockets of resistance on the mountain massifs near the centre of the Fifth Army front. \Ve have captured the summit of Monte Camino, giving o'ur troops observation over enemy positions. Several villages were won. Hard fighting is continuing. Pescara Bombed ...

Published: Wednesday 08 December 1943
Newspaper: Liverpool Evening Express
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 337 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

“IN OUTSKIRTS OF ORTON A”

... portion of the 25-square miles battlefield where fighting went on for days. British troops, yesterday, captured the summit of Monte Camino and surged down the The German commentator Sertorius said: Montgomery yesterday (Tuesday) threw the right wing of the Eighth ...

Published: Thursday 09 December 1943
Newspaper: Liverpool Daily Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 428 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Haul Of Enemy Equipment

... WAY OUT” ♦ GERMAN REPORTS Karl Praegncr, German News Agency military correspondent, said last night that in the area of Monte Camino the last German rearguards have fought their way out to the nearest bend of the Garigliano river after repelling American ...

Published: Saturday 11 December 1943
Newspaper: Liverpool Daily Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 433 | Page: 1 | Tags: none