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Storming Monte La Difensa - The First Special Service Force at the Winter Line, Italy 1943 (Paperback)
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Storming Monte La Difensa - The First Special Service Force at the Winter Line, Italy 1943 (Paperback)
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Featuring full-color artwork, archive photographs, and first-hand
accounts from participants," Storming Monte la Difensa "examines
the origins, execution, and aftermath of the FSSF's spectacular
success at Monte La Difensa amid the savage winter conditions of
December 1943.
In December 1943 Monte La Difensa was part of the formidable German
defenses overlooking the Allies' route to Rome via Monte Cassino.
In the First Special Service Force's first combat in the
Mediterranean theater, the Force would employ its special training
in mountain and winter warfare to scale the peak, capture it, and
then hold it against the inevitable German counterattacks.
Astonishing their superiors, the First Special Service Force had
succeeded in the face of seemingly impossible odds, but suffered a
77 percent casualty rate. Their victory, founded on their
aggressive doctrine and extensive training in a variety of combat
techniques, would prove instrumental in the postwar development of
special forces.
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