#PARAS LIVE KASINO SERIES#
The Germans were fighting from a series of prepared positions in a manner designed to inflict maximum damage, then pulling back while buying time for the construction of the Winter Line defensive positions south of the Italian capital of Rome.
Clark, which had suffered very heavy casualties during the main landing at Salerno (codenamed Operation Avalanche) in September, moved from the main base of Naples up the Italian "boot" and on the eastern front the British Eighth Army, commanded by General Sir Bernard Montgomery, advanced up the Adriatic coast.Ĭlark's Fifth Army made slow progress in the face of difficult terrain, wet weather and skillful German defences. On the western front, the American Fifth Army, commanded by Lieutenant General Mark W. The Allied landings in Italy in September 1943 by two Allied armies, following shortly after the Allied landings in Sicily in July, commanded by General Sir Harold Alexander, the Commander-in-Chief (C-in-C) of the 15th Army Group (later retitled the Allied Armies in Italy), were followed by an advance northward on two fronts, one on each side of the central mountain range forming the "spine" of Italy. ( May 2017) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources.
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9.3 United States military history reviews. 6.3 Clark captures Rome but fails to trap German Tenth Army. 2.6 II Corps in the mountains north of Cassino. 2.5 French Corps halted on the right flank. 2.4 II Corps try north of Cassino: 24 January. 2.3 Main attack: II Corps in the centre, 20 January. 2.2 First assault: X Corps on the left, 17 January. The battle has been described as a Pyrrhic victory, or a victory which was not worth the effort. The capture of Monte Cassino resulted in 55,000 Allied casualties, with German losses estimated at around 20,000 killed and wounded. Following this Allied victory, the German Senger Line collapsed on 25 May, and the German defenders were driven from their positions. On 18 May, a Polish flag followed by the British flag were raised over the ruins. On 16 May, soldiers from the Polish II Corps launched one of the final assaults on the German defensive position as part of a twenty-division assault along a twenty-mile front. Fallschirmjäger forces then occupied the area and established defensive positions amid the ruins.īetween 17 January and 18 May, Monte Cassino and the Gustav defences were attacked on four separate occasions by Allied troops. On 15 February 1944, Allied bombers dropped 1,400 tons of high explosives, creating widespread damage. Fears escalated, along with casualties, and in spite of evidence, it was marked for destruction. Repeated artillery attacks on assaulting allied troops caused their leaders to conclude incorrectly that the abbey was being used by the Germans as an observation post, at the very least. Lying in a protected historic zone, it had been left unoccupied by the Germans, although they manned some positions set into the slopes below the abbey's walls. Monte Cassino, a historic hilltop abbey founded in 529 by the Benedict of Nursia, dominated the nearby town of Cassino and the entrances to the Liri and Rapido valleys. Together, these features formed the Gustav Line. The ultimate objective was to break through the Winter Line, and facilitate an advance towards Rome.Īt the beginning of 1944, the western half of the Winter Line was anchored by Germans holding the Rapido- Gari, Liri and Garigliano valleys and several of the surrounding peaks and ridges. 
The Battle of Monte Cassino, also known as the Battle for Rome and the Battle for Cassino, was a series of four assaults made by the Allies against German forces in Italy during the Italian Campaign during World War II.
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