CANADIAN AND INDIAN TROOPS IN ITALY
Drive Towards Pescara and Cross-Country Highway
FIGHTING IN SLEET, SNOW & HIGH WIND
APENNINE PEAKS STORMED BY FRENCH MOROCCANS
LONDON, December 29
Canadian troops are now slowly pushing on along the 15 mile stretch between Ortona and Pescara, the next Adriatic seaport. It is also the eastern terminus of the'main crosscountry highway to Rome. Further inland, Indian troops have captured a village and a ridge. They are advancing parallel with the Canadians on the coastal road. Fighting is taking place in sleet, snow and a high wind.
On the Fifth Army’s front, French Moroccan troops have captured two more peaks in the Apennines. One German strongpoint only fell after 30 hours of assault. Oh the Garigliano River sector on the west coast, fighting flared up when the Germans counter-attacked British positions near a village. The Germans were thrown back after sharp fighting. A large force of Flying Fortresses and Liberators pounded two railway yards in Northern Italy. Nineteen out of 50 German fighters were shot down. In all the day’s attacks 11 Allied planes are missing.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 December 1943, Page 3
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