Posts in Tag: Forme D’Aquino
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Hitler Line – Canadians Open the Road to Rome
This is the 12th post on the fall 2016 tour of Canadian WWII sites in Italy put on by the great team at Liberation Tours and the second on what Canadians refer to as the Battle of Liri Valley. In the previous post I described how the Canadians played a pivotal role in breaking the Gustav Line by successfully […]
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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 […]