BATTLE FOR ORTONA
CANADIANS ROOTING OUT THE ENEMY
Steady Progress Recorded
GERMANS CONTINUE TO RESIST DESPERATELY
INDIANS & AMERICANS IMPROVE POSITIONS
LONDON.' December 27. In Italy, Canadian troops on the Eighth Army’s front, supported by tanks, are steadily rooting the Germans out of their remaining strongholds' in the port of Ortona. The Germans are still resisting desperately. ■ Ten miles inland, Indian troops have taken a village and broken up strong German counter-attacks, which were supported by tanks. Indian troops are now about one mile from the lateral road between Ortona and Orsogna. . On the Fifth Army’s front, American troops have gained two more heights east of the main road to Rome.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 December 1943, Page 3
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110BATTLE FOR ORTONA Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 December 1943, Page 3
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