Cassino80
Cassino80
1944-2024 80th anniversary
1944-2024 80th anniversary
80th anniversary of the destruction of Cassino in World War II...
Cassino80
80th Anniversary Events
80th Anniversary Events
Discover all the events dedicated to the 80th anniversary...
80th anniversary of the destruction of Cassino in World War II and the sacrifice of its people
17.1.1944
FIRST IMPACT AGAINST "GUSTAV"
THE FIRST BATTLE OF CASSINO
Since the last period of 1943 and in parallel with the military actions in the upper Caserta area, the Allies had planned a landing to be carried out in a coastal area near Rome, in order to make it easier to overcome what they already thought would be the defenses of the Gustav Line.
20.1.1944
20 JANUARY 1944
DISASTER ON THE FIUME RAPIDO
Military operations for the conquest of Cassino began on 20 January 1944, when the 36th U.S. Infantry Division. "Texas" receives the order to cross the Rapido river near the village of S.Angelo in Theodice and thus create a bridgehead from which to subsequently launch the final attack on the city.
24.1.1944
24 JANUARY 1944
THE SECOND PHASE
The French were fighting in the high mountains, on the right side of the attack deployment of the American Fifth Army, embroiled in the Cassino plain. Their position relative to the Gustav Line was further inland than that of their Downstream Allies; on their left there was in fact the lower Rapido valley and the Montecassino ridge, while in front they had the peak of Mount Cifalco.
Feb. 1944
CASSINO EARLY FEBRUARY 1944
THE PARATROOPERS ARE COMING
Between the end of January and the second ten days of February 1944, an event occurred that was destined to give a significant turning point to the battle of Cassino. In fact, the first parachute units of the 1st division arrive, transferred from the Adriatic front.
Four months of fighting
around Cassino
The four months of fighting around Cassino had cost the Germans around 80,000 dead, wounded and missing, and the Allies around 105,000 overall losses.
No one has ever calculated the number of numerous victims among Italian civilians.
80TH ANNIVERSARY
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455 planes dropped 992 tons of bombs on Cassino
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