Battle of Pico

After the battle of the Garigliano and the French advance in the Aurunci Mountains, the Gustav line was broken and German units had to withdraw. The time had come for the French armored cavalry units which supported the advance of …

1944-05-22

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After the battle of the Garigliano and the French advance in the Aurunci Mountains, the Gustav line was broken and German units had to withdraw. The time had come for the French armored cavalry units which supported the advance of the 3rd DIA to move forward : the 7th RCA, the 4th RSM and the 3rd RSAR. Arriving near the village of Pico, the French armor had to face a local counter-attack by the 26 Panzer Division. After a long day of hard fighting, the French tank-destroyers, supported by General Clark's US planes, killed several German tanks and stopped the counter-attack. The French Corps could finally continue its advance toward Rome.

Pico, Italy

The Winter Line was a series of German and Italian military fortifications in Italy, constructed during World War II by Organisation 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.

Wikipedia: Winter Line

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