Cassino Monastery Bombed (1944) - YouTube
Apr 13, 2014 ... Item title reads - Cassino monastery bombed.Italy.L/S of the abbey on the crest of Monte Cassino. M/S Benedictine monks walking in grounds of ...
Monte Cassino - The Bombing - NO SOUND - YouTube
Jul 21, 2015 ... The decision to attack the monastery, occupied and fortified by the Germans, was a military necessity. ® ® The results of the decision are vividly ...
Who Ordered The Bombing Of Monte Cassino : Useful Links
Allied generals ordered a huge bombing attack. Only when the planes were in the air did a British intelligence officer, Colonel David Hunt, ...
General Mark Clark, who commanded the Fifth Army in Italy, directed his ...
All the fire has been from the slopes of the hill below the wall". Finally Clark, "who did not want the monastery bombed", pinned down the Commander-in- ...
Over four months, the Battle of Monte Cassino would inflict some 200000
The Allied bombing of Monte Cassino Abbey in Italy on Feb.
Simon also quoted Eisenhower's order to troops in the Italian Campaign (the ...
For the thousands of Allied soldiers who had fought and suffered for so long in the shadow of the abbey of Monte Cassino, Tuesday morning, ...
However, up to the last days before the bombing, Martino Matronola, a monk who remained at Monte Cassino, asserted that the Wehrmacht ...