World War II

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This paper explains that, in late 1942, the United States Army began a ground offensive against the European Axis, which was the largest commitment to battle ever made by the U. S. Army. It was sustained, almost without pause, until Italy collapsed, and Germany was finally defeated. The author points out that the Allied forces, composed of the Americans, British, Canadian, French, other troops, and the Soviet armies on another front, was history's greatest demonstration of coalition warfare. This paper highlights the battles at Salerno, Anzio, the Gustav Line, and the war north of Rome.

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"The battle for Cassino was perhaps the bitterest struggle of the entire Italian campaign. "The dominating peak of Montecassino crowned by its magnificent but doomed medieval monastery was the key to the entire Gustav Line, a formidable system of defenses that stretched right across the Italian peninsula." This position completely dominated the Liri valley and Route 6, which was the strategically vital road to Rome. January through May of 1944 the Allies struggled amid inhospitable terrain and dreadful weather to dislodge the German paratroops that tenaciously defended the vital mountaintop."

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