cisterna di Littoria

By the middle of May 1944, General Clark has decide he's had enough. Determined to finish his opponent off, he launches the 6th US Army Corps on the little town of cisterna di Littoria, the centerpiece of the German defense …

1944-05-23

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By the middle of May 1944, General Clark has decide he's had enough. Determined to finish his opponent off, he launches the 6th US Army Corps on the little town of cisterna di Littoria, the centerpiece of the German defense against the Allied bridgehead in the Anzio-Nettuno area. From May 23 to 25, GI's of the 3rd US Infantry Division fight fiercely to capture the city held by troops of the German 362.ID. The GIs suffer terrible losses (1600 KIAs, wounded or missing) before finally capturing the city, on the 25th. Sergeant Audie Murphy's unit was involved in the action, managing to cross the railway south of cisterna.

cisterna di Littoria, Italy

The Winter Line was a series of German and Italian military fortifications in Italy, constructed during World War II by Organization Todt and commanded by Albert Kesselring. The series of 3 lines was designed to defend a western section of Italy, focused around the town of Monte Cassino, through which ran the important Highway 6 which led uninterrupted to Rome. The primary Gustav Line ran across Italy from just north of where the Garigliano River flows into the Tyrrhenian Sea in the west, through the Apennine Mountains to the mouth of the Sangro River on the Adriatic coast in the east. The two subsidiary lines, the Bernhardt Line and the Hitler Line ran much shorter distances from the Tyrrehnian sea to just North East of Cassino where they would merge into the Gustav Line. Relative to the Gustav Line, the Hitler Line stood to the North-West and the Bernhardt Line to the South-East of the primary defenses.

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