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I've just had my book about Monte Cassino signed, and a very nice letter from Robert Frettlohr, a German survivor of Monte Cassino
He has invited me to his house for a chat and a look at some memorabilia too
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Nice chap
The Italians use the word Cassino to mean a complete mess..., because of the wars and everything that has happened on that mountain..
my mums uncle was killed there, his brother survived, one of the poles who works here told me just a few months back that his grandad fought there and as you may prob now already it was the poles who really made the breakthough, and lastly,
my best mates father was fallshermjager, but as he died three years ago aged 82 i have yet found the courage to ask my mates ageing mother for his service no.s etc so i can find out more..
i am interested , you could say.
I remember a story from home where two brothers both in the Iniskillings at Monte Casino apparently fell out over something and started punching each other. The brawl apparently spilled out of the trench they where in and out into clear view of the Germans - the spectacle was so strange that the Germans stopped shooting and began to cheer!
My father fought at Monte Casino & said the losses were dreadful. He reckoned that the Americans dropping bombs short of their targets caused a great many Allied casualties. 🙁
Here we go , only a matter of time before someone started up the blue on blue issue lol
Or blue on green.
My Grandfather was there - in the next gun battery to Spike Milligan apparently! Remember him watching some variety show on TV & shouting "it's that malingering ------- gunner Millington!"
In Italy the US Air Forces were known as the 'Yankee Luftwaffe'.
My Grandfather was also there, also in the artillery
Very interesting account in what is so often a one sided story.
Not sure I would have volunterred as a paratrooper though.
J.