Monte Cassino

RIP

there were many brutal battles throughout the Second World War but for the allies few can match the slaughter to capture this strategic point.
 
My Great Uncle Harold was there, massive Boro fan too. No one was fit to lace Mannion's boots in his opinion.
 
Was Mannion at Monte Cassino?

The Poles in the British Army won a lot of gallantry medals @ MC up against very dug in German Paras who were going to fight to the death.
 
Redwurzel said:
Was Mannion at Monte Cassino?

The Poles in the British Army won a lot of gallantry medals @ MC up against very dug in German Paras who were going to fight to the death.
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Yes I believe so, after Dunkirk and at the sharp end of the Sicily invasion. Poor Wilf.
 
My Dad was in the battle at Monte Cassino. His company was withdrawn on Mar13 1944, to Sorrento. He and some of his pals decided to climb Vesuvius to clear their heads on Mar 17, and got about half way up when it erupted. That was the last time it erupted.

My Dad thought everything was conspiring against him at that point. He had to spend his break helping a US Air Force base evacuate in case the lava flow buried it.
 
This very event is replayed in colour in the programme "WW2 in Colour" on Netflix.

Astonishing viewing even more so in colour
 
My dad was there after surviving the sinking of The Lancastria in 1940 and then first on the beach at the invasion of Salerno as a beach master, he then went into the ruin of monastery and retrieved an organ key which is now in Imperial War Museum.....
 
"It is a legacy that has led Nando Tasciotti, an investigative journalist and former special correspondent at the Italian daily Il Messaggero, into the archives for Pope Pius XII, opened by the Vatican in 2020, where he discovered a document he said confirmed Adolf Hitler’s role in the chain of events that led to the attack while revealing the Holy See’s admission the bombing raid might have been avoided had the Vatican taken firm action to enforce a neutral zone in and around the monastery."
 
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