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Chapter 3: Blood, Guts and a Reputation
Santa Maria Infante, (pp. 11-17) The terrain over which the 351st Infantry Regiment was destined to fight one of the most savage and...
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Chapter 4: The Spear Strikes
ITRI-VALMONTONE (pp. 18-19) Doughboys move up on the road to Rome. Having smashed the German defenses at SANTA MARIA the next regimental...
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Chapter 5: At The End of The Rainbow
ROME (pp. 20-23) Together, the Second and Third Battalions pushed off to cut vital Highway 6 on the morning of 1 June 1944, destroying...
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Chapter 6: Midsummer Fighting -- 1944
(MONTECATINI, p. 24) The hard-pressed Germans, hurled back from their three defensive lines south of Rome, dropped back slowly through...
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