The monastery of Monte Cassino after the Allied bombing of Feb. 15, 1944. ... The day before the bombing, Allies forces dropped leaflets over the monastery urging non-combatants to leave.

On May 18, 1944, Allied troops captured Monte Cassino in Italy, celebrated for its historic hilltop abbey, after four months of bitter fighting. The soldiers of the French Expeditionary Corps ...

Let us remember the fallen Gurkhas of the Battle of Monte Cassino on this occasion. Their names shall be recalled as we pay our respects to those who gave their lives for freedom and peace.

Before the war in Italy rolled north to Monte Cassino, the chief ornament of the monastery’s Chapel of the Assumption was a handsome altarpiece of the Virgin. Then the ancient monastery ...

Walking among the graves of the young men, mostly aged in their early twenties, who died between January and May 1944, some days before or a few days after the campaign, was just heartbreaking.

Losing an arm to German shrapnel early in the battle of Monte Cassino may just have saved the life of Merrill's Ralph Wehlitz. He turns 100 on June 4. News Sports Packers Business Suburbs Advertise ...