Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Anzio and Monte Cassino
The presentations over Anzio and Monte Cassino were great. I did not realize that they had played a key role in trying to pull eastern German troops into southern Europe. Also it was interesting to hear about the fighting that took place in Italy. This information often gets left out when talking or learning about World War 2. Furthermore I did not realize so many soldiers died from non combat injuries due to trench warfare and other reasons. One thing I might have missed though was where were the Italian forces? Were they mostly defeated or were they just part of the German armies and under their command?
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Agreed. It seems that most people were unaware of the magnitude of importance to the Italian Campaign conducted by the U.S. Military in World War 2. It was important though becuase it forced the Nazis to allocate military resources and efforts to this area of operations. Because of this, forces were not as strong on the Eastern and Western Fronts.
i also agree but will say that because of the campaigns at the po, anzio, palermo, salerno, cassino, the gustav and gothic lines-italy gets at least a fair amount of focus
and despite its name, trench foot can be developed in any kind of battle field
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