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Bigger Guns? The need for more heavy artillery - main U.S. reliance in Italy has been on the 105-mm. howitzer (standard field gun of World War II) and on 155s for heavier work - is illustrated by the comment of one veteran battalion commander on the Cassino front : "The effectiveness of artillery on the offense in this country has been negligible since the Germans are so obviously well...
Looking Forward. The fighting, at least at Cassino, has now reached a stalemate comparable to that on the Western Front in World War I. Last week Allied troops advanced a mile to take Mt. Marrone, a dominating peak-but at a point far in the hills, some 15 miles northeast of Cassino, where the prospects of an effective drive appeared small...
Assuming that the Allies are unwilling to devote the resources necessary for a major landing elsewhere in the Mediterranean-and assuming that they insist on attacking with limited forces in Italy-they are foolish to waste lives battering against the well-defended mountains near Cassino if they can use their efforts on the less-difficult although now also well-defended terrain behind Cassino...
...Weapons. Public and press have begun to give the infantry more credit since air power failed to pave the way for a quick capture of Cassino (although the infantry has also repeatedly failed to take the town, either with or without air aid). But the public is not likely to give the infantry due credit so long as it pictures him merely as an oldfashioned, unimaginative, foot-slogging rifleman...
...Passes. The two passes at whose entrances the Russians stood - the Jablonica and Tartar Passes southwestward into Czechoslovakia - are not so rugged and impregnable as some of the territory around Cassino, for example. The passes rise only to about 3,000 ft., above wan dering valleys. The mountains are rolling rather than precipitous...