The 22nd Battalion wasn,t pushed off malame or hill 107 the german forces were shot to pieces and not one company in the 22nd battalion...
It is true none of the Allied Generals at casino covered themselves in glory Mark Clark,Freyberg,Alexander they all performed poorly once they...
Hey guys if you are interested cheak out www.nzetc.org you won,t regret it it has all the Official histories of New Zealand in WW2. Our...
We were fighting at Orsogna as part of 8th army in NOV-DEC 1943 it is inland from Ortona and the Canadians were at Ortona. The whole front in...
A lot of people don,t know this outside of New Zealand but our commanders really didn,t want to do the cassino battle when they got there our...
It,s worth noting the trouble our bulldozer drivers had trying to clear the rubble if you see photos of the bulldozers they were like a civilian...
When the bombing happened there were 300 germans in the town and 150-160 were killed there was about 140 left over one of there companies from the...
I read about the fighting below Castle hill we were trying hard to clear it the germans were able to put alot of enfilading fire with there mg42...
It sure was a deadly mistake the more i read about the battle the more it hits home how poorly directed the battle was by the allied generals they...
It was my understanding that is was 2nd battalion 3rd parachute regiment that was in the town when they did the big bombing then other units were...
I agree totally i,ve always had in interest in war because i had family in both wars and it has really stood out for me the power of terrain and...
Thanks for reminding me about Cavandish the only time in the battle we took the germans by suprise and we send tanks with no infantry support....
I agree there was none in the town it,s self i misunderstood your post.
I have a book Cassino the Hollow Victory by Jogn Ellis and it states on page 201 that the germans had available in the immediate Vicinity for the...
I know when the second battle for cassino happened we were asked to attack because Anzio was in trouble and they want ed to try and tie down...
I read the official history of the 26th Battalion 2nd new Zealand division and i,m sure i read a comment in there about getting hit with them when...
The problem was to attack Rome we had to break into the Liri Valley and the Germans controlled highway 6 going through the Town with there...
I have a book Cassino the Hollow Victory by John Ellis and it states that the British official history expressed some puzzlement over freybergs...
That is so true it,s like they get obsessed with it if they put in an attack and the first one doesn,t work they just can,t walk away from it and...
