The day before the bombing ... Though virtually destroyed by the bombing, the monastery of Monte Cassino was rebuilt after the war and remains a popular tourist and pilgrimage destination ...

The regiment captured the Belvedere plateau near Monte Cassino after fierce fighting between ... 207 CEF soldiers were brought before French military courts. In all, 156 soldiers were convicted ...

They were unable to live a peaceful life after the war, have families, and fulfill their dreams. Let us remember the fallen Gurkhas of the Battle of Monte Cassino on this occasion. Their names ...

In the fertile valley of the Rapido, below Monte Cassino, the seed buried in the ... “Let them stay,” he urged. “After all, they too are rebuilding.” * In 1947 Dom Mauro Inguanez, Abbey ...

Before the war in Italy rolled north to Monte Cassino, the chief ornament of the monastery’s Chapel of the Assumption was a handsome altarpiece of the Virgin. Then the ancient monastery ...

EIGHTY years ago my dad, Stefan Danielczuk, was in Italy as part of the contingent fighting the Nazis who were entrenched in the Abbey on Monte Cassino ... days before or a few days after the ...

But unlike Oradour-sur-Glane, San Pietro was as a result of fighting between the 36th Division and the German defenders, attempting to stop the Allied advance towards Monte Cassino and ultimately ...