Posts in Tag: Cassino
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Cassino Memorial War Cemetery
This is the third and final post on the Liberation Tours 2016 Italian trip to the various battle sites and memorials in and around the town of Cassino. The first post described the Canadian role in the crossing of the Gari River and breaking of the Gustav Line. In the second post we visited the scenes of some […]
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Liri Valley – The Canadians Break the Gustav Line
This is the 11th post on the Liberation Tours fall 2016 trip retracing the path of the Canadian Army campaign in Italy during WWII. It is the first of two posts on the fighting that took place in the Liri Valley south of Rome from May 11-June 4, 1944. In the last post on Ortona I […]