The War In Italy

[RedDevil]

me and all the rest of my family will never forget the italian campaign....

we lost a very special man at Anzio, who is missed greatly..... every member of my family have photographs to remember him by, hung on walls in there homes.

His body may be buried in Anzio, but his spirit came home and lives on!!

[andalucia]

(RedDevil @ Mar 11 2005, 09:47 PM) [post=32120]me and all the rest of my family will never forget the italian campaign....

we lost a very special man at Anzio, who is missed greatly..... every member of my family have photographs to remember him by, hung on walls in there homes.

His body may be buried in Anzio, but his spirit came home and lives on!!
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Very Moving RedDevil

My family is the same, my grandfather is buried at Minturno Cemetery







This is his picture. we will never forget the campaign in Italy and the great feed back that i have recieved shows many others will also remember it.

Tony.

[Stephen]

The views of Field Marshall Kesselring on the Italian campaign.

The bald result of the two years battle for Italy was that in the end, for various reasons, the front collapsed with heavy losses. That was not in itself a disaster, however, in so far as the campaign had helped the general war situation, as the following positive factors show:

The Italian theatre pinned down Allied forces which if they had been engaged on decisive fronts, might have powerfully influenced events in the east or in the west adversely for Germany.

The mere size of the area we defended fatefully influenced land, air and naval operations. The surrender of so much territory might, directly or indirectly have been paid for on other fronts and at home by a sacrifice of blood and material which would have been greater than the losses on the Italian front. As it was till nearly the end of the war the south of Germany was spared the suffering of war in every aspect, the effect of which in terms of out capacity to resist was immeasurable.

After the allied invasion of Normandy the Italian theatre was relegated to secondary importance, as was made evident, among other things, by the withdrawal of ten divisions. On the other hand, enemy forces were pinned down to the same extent as before, if somewhat different in composition and quality, and very great material resources were immobilised. That it was possible to hold the Italian front under the circumstances described when the enemy had absolute air supremacy will be seen as the maximum attainable result by any objective student of history, seeing that for us to regain the strategic initiative had become a utopian dream and ground once surrendered could never be retaken.

[Pylon1357]

My family too will never forget the Italian campaign. I am the namesake of an uncle who was killed at Coriano Italy, wounded 13 September 1944, Died of his woundds 14 September 1944.

Fior Go Bas

[EmmaH]

I am seeking anyone who served with 85th Mountain Regiment R.A. (T.A) in Italy during '44/'45.

Take a look at my page: http://www.geocities.com/hunnies28@btopenw...com/85thMt.html


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Pals of 85th

My partners' father is located in second from left in the back row.
Please read my article and if there is anything you can add, please contact me or perhaps you know of someone who would like to talk with me.
Many thanks all,
Emma

[John Vincent McLoughlin]

Does anyone know how I can get photos from pre-1945 of the Lateral Road east of the Flyover at Anzio?