CAMINO BATTLE
ONE OF THE FIRECEST OF THE WAR. MASSED GUNS AND PLANES OPEN WAY FOR ASSAULT. (Received This Day, 12.40 p.m.) LONDON, December 5. Eighth Army units are steadily ad--0 vancing, through demolitions and mine fields, towards the Moro River. The Allied armies in Italy are now facing over 100,000 Germans. The Algiers radio, describing the. action in which British and American troops drove un over the Mount Camino Pass, in the Fifth Army’s lightning blow, says it' proved one of the fiercest battles of the Italian campaign. The Germans fully realised the enormous strategical importance of the positions guarding the Mignano gateway, and moved up every available unit to meet the Allied attack. The Germans’ most important defence position was Camino, which is a bare, isolated peak commanding the road to Rome. All the fury of the Allied air and artillery bombardment was unleashed against this height. Hundreds of guns, ranged in a savage semi-circle, battered the target, while American planes struck from the air. Fighterbombers, throughout the day, attacked the centre of this winter line, dropped tons of high explosives and hundreds of fragmentation bombs, and blasted a ten mile stretch of the enemy’s defences. British and American infantry then moved forward in two columns and began a most successful hand-to-hand assault against the slopes.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 December 1943, Page 4
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