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Old 29-12-2004, 11:41 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Ouch! That's a tough one. Everybody but the Finnish border cops fought at Cassino, it seems. From what I can tell, I think it was pretty much a combined effort, as said upstairs. I would vote for the French, oddly enough, because Marshal Juin found the way to make the Germans ultimately decide to pull out of the monastery and the heights around it. But it would not be an overwhelming landslide for the French. Had the Canadians and Poles not been attacking there, the Germans might not have pulled out. And had the New Zealanders, Indians, Britons, and Americans paid a stiff price in blood as well. It's almost a rhetorical question, and I do not believe there is such a thing as a rhetorical question. All questions have answers. That's why teachers put time limits on tests.
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