The New Zealand Expeditionary Force in World War II by Wayne Stack

Author:Wayne Stack
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: The New Zealand Expeditionary Force in World War II
ISBN: 9781780961132
Publisher: Osprey Publishing Ltd

Third Cassino, March 1944

Bad weather delayed the next attempts until mid-March. On the 15th, Cassino town was destroyed by US bombers as a prelude to a renewed attack by the New Zealand Corps. The raid was followed by an eight-hour artillery barrage; while this raged, the Indians were again tasked with assaulting Monastery Hill, and 6th NZ Bde, supported by Shermans of 19th Armd Regt, advanced into the ruined town from the north. Predictably, the chaotic rubble and craters caused by the bombing seriously hindered the movement of the tanks, leaving the infantry to fight a largely unsupported house-to-house battle against the stubborn Fallschirmjäger. The 25th Bn managed to secure parts of the town and the important Castle Hill, but on their left 26th Bn’s attack was delayed by more than three hours. The attack bogged down in bitter close-range fighting in a bewildering maze of rubble-slopes, teetering walls and half-buried cellars.

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