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December 1943
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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

River Line Sib TAKE HEIGHTS

... and ® y fighting is taking place Violent fighting is also being waged 116 Fifth Army front in the area of Maggiore and Monte Camino. Army have captured three more heights before the Central Italy of Mignano. With this latest success, achieved yesterday ...

Published: Monday 06 December 1943
Newspaper: Liverpool Evening Express
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 1151 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

DEATHS

... important observation point on Monte Maggiore gives the Fifth Army control of most of the strategic heights there and on Monte Camino. The Eighth has crossed the flooded Moro river, with armour, ten miles north of the Sangro. The Eighth got their tanks ...

Published: Tuesday 07 December 1943
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 4367 | Page: 4 | 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

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

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

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

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

RITISH TANKS DRIVING TO PESCARA

... excel what was experienced last week Karl Praegner. German News Agency military correspnodent. admitted last night that at Monte Camino American troops gained some ground. Fighting both on the eastern and western coastal fronts increased in intensity yesterday ...

Published: Wednesday 08 December 1943
Newspaper: Liverpool Daily Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 1662 | Page: 3 | 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

MIST AND MUD

... The British completed the mopping of the mountain massifs with the capture of Monte Croce, two and a half miles east of Monte Camino DRIVE THROUGH MINES British troops west Monte Croce continue to drive towards the bank of the river through minefields ...

Published: Thursday 09 December 1943
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 879 | 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