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...bombing of Monte Cassino Abbey was a "tragic mistake ... I said then that there was no evidence the Germans were using the Abbey for military purposes. I say now that there is irrefutable evidence that no German soldier, except emissaries, was ever inside the Monastery ... It only made our job more difficult." The bombing, says Clark, was ordered only on the insistence of Lieut. General Bernard Freyberg, commander of the New Zealand Corps, that it was a military necessity. After the bombing of the Abbey and the surrounding slopes, Clark says, Freyberg's forces failed to attack quickly enough...
...Clark defends his order of the bloody and abortive attack by the 36th Division across the Rapido below Cassino. It was necessary to draw German defenders away from the projected Anzio landing. The casualties were not 2,900, as the indignant 36th claimed, but 1,681. "If I am to be accused of something, thank God I am accused of attacking instead of retreating...
...Aerial Blue. Along the stages of the Allied road to victory lay the Normandy beaches, the high, frowning bluffs of Monte Cassino, the coral reefs of Tarawa, the aerial blue over the sea approaches to Japan, with the Kamikazes coming in. Picture History has gathered in the look of it all. There are individual faces, too-sometimes composed, more often starkly candid-of the men of all armies and all ranks. There is the home front, with its crucibles and assembly lines, its boom towns and bond drives...
Beyond Defeat, by Hans Richter. The last, lost stages of World War II as seen by Germans who fought at Cassino (TIME, July...
Beyond Defeat, by Hans Richter. The last, lost stages of World War II as seen by Germans who fought at Cassino (TIME, July...