Stories categorised in 'Italy'. These stories may contain references to other themes.
Strange as it seems now, my mother's favourite opera was playing, Cavaleria Rusticana, Mascagni's...
Vern Herron piloting one of them, got two German rifleman who were taking shots at me The Walrus turned and...
The church was empty but I peopled it with Cavaradossi, jealous Floria Tosca and the scheming Scarpia who...
My wounds were dressed at the Casualty Clearing Station, it was there I found out I had been hit in the...
Sister Dorothy Mary Cole of the Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service joined HMHS...
The town of Predappio was in fact the birthplace of Benito Mussolini, the Italian dictator, and the castle...
A Fighting Perth Remembers The night was black as pitch, no moon, no stars, no flash of artillery fire to...
Although his parents were from Italy, he was born in Brazil, and he still lives here. Along with thousands...
Together, we laugh at the incongruity when noticing that the Church of the Trinity is flanked by buildings...
The 8th Army had marched from the sands of El Alamein in Egypt, through Cyrenaica, Libya, Tripolitania and...
It was on June 4th 1944 that Rome was 'liberated' by a Commando group from the Combined British 8th...
Mar 22 : Larry's diary says he was at Mignano and two Messerschmits were shot down. April 23:...
The battalion first went into action when the front line was static in the mountains near Monte Cassino,...
Tunisia was much better, there were fewer Germans there and a lot less resistance plus we were lucky to...
The Ministry was going to be transferred to Northern Italy, like many other firms as they feared the...
On a day of "rest", Paddy was sitting on top of the turret of his Churchill Tank cleaning his...
Well, one day Ken Warren was taking off but Dickie, his fitter, didn't get off the tail in time and Ken...
It took some hours, but the Army managed to send them mutton, goat, rice, chuppaties and potatoes all...
Last September I was in Rome which was part of a 60th anniversary Battlefield tour of Italy I had taken,...
I joined as a Nursing Sister with the Red Cross and seconded to the Air Force but then transferred to the...
There were several pictures of my 'Uncle Peter' during his travels around war-torn Europe - all of...
This had a most unexpected benefit owing to the perspicacity of the Lance Corporal i/c the bathhouse, who...
And so I continued the recce right through the Gothic Line, sometimes sleeping in an amiable Italian's...
On the invasion of Sicily from Tunisia, we took off in our Waco glider on the evening of 9th July 1943,...
4 Troop on the North-Eastern road, penetrated beyond San Polo to the first main feature where they were...
The day had started with my tank commander, Busty Thomas MM, going sick, I believe with an old wound, and...
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