(3/11) Battlefield II The Battle for Monte Cassino Ep13 World War II

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The Battle of Monte Cassino consisted of four separate battles fought over the course of five months. Forces from the United Kingdom, United States, Poland, New Zealand, Canada, Free France, India, and others were involved among the Allies.
The key significance of these battles was it led to the eventual linkup between the Anzio pocket in the south and Allied troops trapped farther north. The linkup of forces led to the eventual capture of Rome, the first Axis capital to fall in the war.
The Allies had two main objectives: (1) To draw the Germans away from the Anzio beach-head, and then (2) To drive quickly towards Rome.
The Allies had twenty-one divisions and eleven brigades opposing fourteen German divisions and three brigades.
German casualties, caused by the attack on March 15th and the heavy artillery fire, was severe. A March 23rd diary entry of a high ranking XIV Corps officer states that the post-battle strength of the battalions engaged varied from 40 to 120 men.
The fourth and final assault on Monte Cassino resulted in an Allied victory, but only because the Allies decided to overwhelm the Germans through sheer weight of numbers. Simultaneously, the Germans had weakened their positions prior to the battle by withdrawing some troops to France.
The breakthrough at Cassino meant that the Allies were able (within a week's time) to join up with the Anzio beach head and then to capture Rome. The loss did considerable damage to Axis morale.

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[sheemsheem]

5:00 woah...cool

[lucius1976]

the allies could have been in rome a year before if they had coordinated the italian surrender with a landing by rome.

[MarruecosMan]

@MrMugg You do not talk about rapes committed by Americans during the war . They said Americans committed 140,000 of rapes get your facts ignorant

[mwjk13]

@MarruecosMan so why did the polish experience fierce resistance?

[HoustonGD]

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[MrMugg]

The French colonial troops committed mass-rapes and murdered civilians throughout the entire campaign in Italy, and especially after Monte Cassino. Disgusting that they do not even mention something like that. But I'm not surprised that a British/American documentary wants to keep preserving the myth that the allies "liberated" Europe.

[MarruecosMan]

Without mechanized support the Abbey was circled and taken, a task many had thought impossible. By the time the Poles made their last attack on the Abbey on May 18, the Germans had already left, and we were on the road to Rome.

[MarruecosMan]

They flanked Casino and drove into the Liri Valley from the west with such speed that they soon passed the edge of their maps and stopped only because they didn't know where they were or where to go. (Pretty soon we began hearing the phrase "Goumed right off the map" for any spectacular advance.)