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To bring this wonderful day back in mind:Originally posted by Marco View Post
Fantastic job again, Marco!Comment
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Italian women victim of colonial troops was nearly 30.000, 900 only in the village of Esperia and Ausonia. Trials during and after the war was only 360 (15 moroccan soldiers was executed by French regular Army only in 26 june 1944). French payed 30.000 - 150.000 lire each woman for month (16 - 75 euro of today) until 1/8/1947, after Italy payed this money. In a small city of Ceccano, when moroccan arrived civilians take german gun and machine gun abandoned and open the fire until British troops arrived in the village.Originally posted by Ludwig View Post
Is a black page of our freedom Ludwig.
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SAN VITTORE DEL LAZIO...
after San Pietro, another willage must to take. San Vittore del Lazio:
The village of San Vittore, with its closely packed stone houses and narrow streets, had been converted into a main enemy strongpoint, lying near the base of Mount <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:PersonName w:st="on" ProductID="la Chiaia">la Chiaia</st1:PersonName> and guarding the approaches against a frontal attack. The 135th Infantry planned to use the 3d Battalion against this position while the 1st Battalion, crossing San Vittore Creek further north, assaulted the northeast shoulder of the hill itself.<O
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Once again a village stronghold had to be taken. The 3d Battalion planned a night assault by Company K, starting at 23.30 on 4 January, without the customary artillery preparation. Two platoons of Company K led off. The 2d Platoon attempted to come in from the south but, after making slight progress, was stopped by machinegun fire. The 1st Platoon, attacking from the northeast, captured several houses before dawn, then spent the day in house-to-house fighting with hand grenades. Snipers fired against US troops from the stone houses; some buildings were booby-trapped. By nightfall of 5 January one-half the town had been captured. Capt. Emil Skalicky then sent the 3d Platoon of Company K to aid the assault on the north while Company I attacked from the southwest. Another day was required to clean out the enemy. By 1700 on 6 January the last of the bitter street fighting had ended, and 170 prisoners from the 44th Grenadier Division had been captured. Our own casualties were very light for such an operation.<O</O
The 1st Battalion met with equally stiff resistance in its attack on the hill behind San Vittore. During the night of 4/5 January it moved to the gulch of San Vittore Creek north of the village. Seven hundred yards further up the creek, the 3d Battalion of the 168th was waiting for the jump-off toward Hill 396. At 06.30 the 125th Field Artillery Battalion opened a rolling barrage, firing 1,634 rounds in ninety minutes. Despite this support the 1st Battalion was stopped on the line of departure by enemy fire from well-protected positions in ravines and rock pillboxes. Machine guns were causing trouble from emplacements in the stone houses of the hamlet of Santa Giusta; the 1st Battalion withdrew to allow for finer adjustment of artillery fire on these positions. On 6 January the battalion tried and failed again to cross the creek line. The 2d Battalion, which had been in reserve, took over the attack and succeeded in making a rapid thrust across the face of the hill. On 7 January, with San Vittore and Hill 396 lost, enemy resistance faded and Mount <st1:PersonName w:st="on" ProductID="la Chiaia">la Chiaia</st1:PersonName> was occupied by the 135th. The 3d Battalion moved promptly west from San Vittore and drove the enemy from Hill 224 and Cicerelli Hill, low knobs between Mount <st1:PersonName w:st="on" ProductID="la Chiaia">la Chiaia</st1:PersonName> and Highway No. <st1:metricconverter w:st="on" ProductID="6. A">6. A</st1:metricconverter> German troop concentration west of Mount <st1:PersonName w:st="on" ProductID="la Chiaia">la Chiaia</st1:PersonName> was dispersed at noon by sixteen A-36's and an equal number of P-40's. As a result of the combined efforts of the air force and the infantry, the remnants of the 134th Grenadiers withdrew westward in confusion. Bypassed enemy groups were mopped up and minefields cleared, especially from the San Vittore area. On the trail from Santa Giusta.<O</O
US troops encountered a new type of German weapon, a concrete mine with plastic fuse, which could not be located by detectors.<O</O
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San Vittore from San Pietro Infine.Comment
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Left: a german sniper killed by US Troops in San Vittore
Right: german Pow's in San Vittore after the battleComment
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US Troops in San VittoreComment
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US Troops in San Vittore.Comment
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US Tank crew and a civilian of San Vittore (I think italian try to explain something like I try to explain to Forum people
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Italian little girl in San Vittore searching for water...photo take by a G.I.Comment
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A Then & Now from San Vittore. Is not perfect, but was impossible to do better.
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A British "MP" on crossroad San Vittore to Via Casilina.Comment
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Ok boys..now that we have taken San Vittore, our eyes go to the next village and hill... the last before Cassino: Cervaro.
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Cant wait for more ...
Thx Marco you do a great job
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