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When General Truscott climbed to the top of Monte Cesima and observed the surrounding area, he understood that the only road to Rome was the state road number 6, Casilina. But the extremely difficult and full of obstacles test the Allies had to face it on the left side of the deployment where the 56th British Division attacked Monte Camino in order to circumvent the Mignano pass.

But the soldiers found themselves facing the well-fortified line Reinhard or Bernhardt which they called the Winter line, where the soldiers found themselves under a barrage of mines, machine-guns and mortars. The map indicates the German defensive barrier at the center of the Reinhard Line, with Monte Camino and Monte La Difensa blocking the advance of the Allied forces in the mountain sector at the beginning of November United States Army, Center of military history.

General Clark tried to support the Englishmen on the left flank, ordering General Truscott, commander of the 3th Division , to attack another peak, Monte La Difensa , a geological appendix of Monte Camino. But even this assault failed, the Allies managed to conquer only one outpost near Monte Lungo and Monte Rotondo.

It was a black November for the allies, from the beginning of the crossing of the Volturno they had managed to advance very slowly and only on the right side of the deployment they had a decent position with the conquest of Monte Cesima, while in the center they remained still in Mignano and on left flank had suffered a searing defeat with huge losses on Monte Camino. Now General Clark was convinced that to overcome the impasse and break through the winter line to get into the Valle del Liri , the strategic point to attack was San Pietro.

To achieve the goal he had to aim at Monte Sammucro, meters above the town of San Pietro.

Second Battle of Monte Cassino

The new plan to break through the winter line was based on three attacks: At the end of November, the penetration on the Winter line had been arrested in front of the main line, despite the conquest of some hills near the pass of Mignano. Senger reinforced the front with two new divisions that served to shore up the defense and raise the morale of the troops.

The attack of the allied forces in the area of Mignano Monte Lungo along three routes. Soldiers encountered mines and explosive traps. The Germans concentrated all their attention at that point, convinced that the Allies would try to overcome the grip of Mignano , using armored formations.

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Senger argued that neither he nor the other German commanders would have employed an attack in the mountain sectors because of the enormous difficulties they would have encountered in the attack on the mountain sectors, even though this possibility was not overlooked during the various assessments. Clark reports that he met McCreery on November 12 because he believed that the British could take Monte Camino , which was the most formidable of these peaks, although I will have some more rugged nearby ones. McCreery told Clark that the 56th Division was no longer able to fight and needed a long rest period.

The German command at the beginning of December tried to understand if the attack was concentrated at the Mignano pass or the Allies would attack the dominant heights of Monte Camino and Monte La Difensa. General Senger visited the front on December 2 and upon his return realized that the Allies were preparing to attack on the mountain front. In fact, Senger had well grasped the strategy that the Allies had in mind as they were concentrating all their efforts into a very strong artillery attack, over nine hundred cannons began to thunder. Over the next two days, , grenades were thrown: Unity was the first experiment of a special unit of the US army.

The unit was created by Frederick on the instructions of General Eisenhower and was made up of Americans and Canadians, the force trained in Helena in the mountains. The First Special Service Force began the activity on July 20, , trained with parachute launches.

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Frederick organized a force of men and attacked the massif of Monte La Difensa by assaulting the German lines with a silent zig-zag across the slopes of Monte La Difensa. On the evening of December 3, the unit had conquered the peak of Monte La Difensa but the advance to the west to reach the English people were fighting on Monte Camino on the left side was blocked by the German attack.

Despite heavy rains and hail, the German counterattack forced the black devils to burrow on the top of Monte La Difensa. But under these conditions on December 7, , the black devils joined the British who had conquered Monte Camino in the meantime. The allies had conquered the left side of the winter line, but the bill was salty.