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Warlord -
That plan would have made a lot of sense had it been adopted - however that initial attack was thwarted by Clark as his 34th Div ran into difficulty in trying to get too close to the Monastery so it might have worked especially with the other Mountain Troops in 4th Div - BUT - and there is always one of them - the raping and looting by the French African troops upset a lot of people and they were banished very quickly from what was eventually 8th Army territory - Clark was fixated then about his Anzio debacle and thought that Kesselring would bring more reserves away from the Liri valley to hold them - he was wrong lots of times !
Cheers
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