Italy

Cyril Mills’ Story - Part 2 of 2

After a few weeks the Army Commander gave us permission to fire our 3" Italian gun at the German...

A Polish sapper in WWII, Jerzy Gradosielski MC

Then Germany invaded its ally Russia and after the amnesty in July 1941 Jerzy was released and joined...

Green Envelopes

These envelopes were brought back to the fore one day in the middle of a battle when our driver, Charlie...

3 Commando Bridge

After the fall of Catania, General Montgomery ordered that a stone be carved with “3 Commando...

Trip to Versuvius 19th March 1944

From our position we could plainly hear the rumbling noises in Versuvius's crator, and see thousands of...

DONALD DELVES' WAR - NORTH AFRICA TO ITALY

Our LST was just about to reach the shore when there was a terrific explosion and a mine had blown a huge...

In transit - North Africa and Naples area Italy - Vesuvius erupts

Joss and another of our friends had a roam around Naples and looking over a church found that an orphanage...

Dun's man 's service

We then moved south from Peebles to various places in Britain and eventually went overseas to North Africa...

Return to an old battlefield

REMEMBRANCE Late April, Italy 1975—Spring, in all her splendour, bathed the lyrical Liri Valley in...

Vesuvius Rest Camp

We eventually got out to Boscotrecase and amazingly there were no major casualties and no arms were lost or...

My war in Italy and Africa

I was glad to be home but I love travelling and have returned to Italy and Africa several times....

Adventures of an Army Nurse

We were followed all the way from Avonmouth to Gibraltar by a German U boat and stayed two weeks in Gib...

AMES and the battle for Italy.

The Germans didn't have many planes in italy as we'd bombed a lot of them... After that we were...

Brave lad

I was 13; it would be unthinkable now for a boy of 13 to be alone in the mountains without any safety...

Brazilian Troops.

Although his parents were from Italy, he was born in Brazil, and he still lives here. Along with some other...

The siege of Habbaniyah.

During the course of my brief service with the R.A.F., I had, in 1947, the good fortune to be posted to...

Lost at Monte Casino

In the spring of 1944 I was with my Squadron which was 2788 Field Sqdrn R.A.F Regiment which at that time...

The War Diary Of Will S. Arnett, 1st Lt. USAAF -Part 5: December 13, 1942 Tafaroui, Africa

The War Diary Of Will S. Arnett, 1st Lt. USAAF -Part 5: December 13, 1942 Tafaroui, Africa. The following...

ELIDE'S WAR

I lived in a village outside Venice called Castel Franco in the province of Treviso, Veneto. The prisoners...

Growing up in Wartime Italy.

Near us there was a small depot for the Italian Air Force and the Germans took it over... Everything became...

They fell off the back of a lorry

This meant a constant stream of these lorries coming out of the sea, up the beach and through the town of...

Gothic Line

This however was changed by the 8th Army Commander Lt.Gen Oliver Leese and the Canadians , Poles and 5th...

One Man's War

The couple had a daughter, Dorina, before moving to North Street, Wigston where Giovanni took up employment...

The Anzio Express

After Christmas in Naples, we were again part of combat command B and the second wave that arrived on Anzio...

WORLD WAR II:part 3 service details of Edward Astley-Jones

Escapee in Castelnuovo di Farfa, Italy

My father, Walter Edward Westbrook was in the South African Defence Force- he was based in North Africa and...