MOUNTAIN BATTLES
MORE HEIGHTS CAPTURED FRENCH MOROCCAN TROOPS IN ACTION. HEAVY FIGHTING IN SEVERAL AREAS. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 9.55 a.m.) RUGBY, December 22. On the Fifth Army front, after intermittent showers on Monday the weather cleared. Fierce fighting has continued in sectors held by French and American troops. After three days and nights of battle for a mountain pass; French Moroccan troops finally captured the southern shoulder and other gains were made in the Filiagano sector. We are now. attacking Acquafondata, a mountain village B at an altitude of 2,500 feet, seven miles north-east of Cassino, and Cardito, 3| miles further north. Heavy fighting is proceeding on the Casale heights, in between, where we have captured another height among the mountains. This area is six or seven miles northwest of Venafro. Our troops around San Vittore are engaged in demolishing numerous pillboxes, from which the Germans are putting up a stern resistance. Trains, motor vehicles and defended positions were the targets of
our fighter-bombers yesterday, as bad weather grounded our heavy strategic bombers. A Spitfire, near the Eighth Army’s front line, destroyed two locomotives and damaged 16 trucks.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 December 1943, Page 3
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