Word: cervaro
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Dates: during 1944-1944
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...Mount Pile (3,700 ft.). They slid into the village of Acquafondata, gained a hold on one of four roads to Cassino. In the central-southern sector, U.S. and Canadian soldiers took Mount Porchia (where 16 stretcher-bearers were killed), Mount Capraro, Mount Trocchio, the strongly held village of Cervaro. From Trocchio, they overlooked Cassino itself. They rushed down Trocchio, massed to crash the outer Cassino fortifications...
Krauts at Cervaro. The haggard faces, worn bodies of soldiers who survived the mountain fighting, often in or above the clouds, testified to the intensity of German resistance. Out of the fighting came many a tale...
Germans of the veteran Hermann Goring Division (Libya, Tunisia, Sicily) surrendered Cervaro only after hours of artillery, machine-gun, grenade fire. Then they counterattacked with eight companies, tanks, self-propelled guns. Repulsed at last, they left a few prisoners-arrogant, undaunted teen-age Nazis. Said Private Donald Gunther, prodding two of them with a bayonet: "You're just a couple of Krauts...
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