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Storming Monte La Difensa: The First Special Service Force at the Winter Line, Italy 1943 (Raid)

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Featuring full-color artwork, archive photographs, and first-hand accounts from participants, Storming Monte L. a. Difensa examines the origins, execution, and aftermath of the FSSF’s spectacular success at Monte L. a. Difensa amid the savage winter conditions of December 1943.

In December 1943 Monte L. a. Difensa used to be a part of the formidable German defenses overlooking the Allies’ route to Rome by the use of Monte Cassino. Within the First Special Service Force’s first combat Within the Mediterranean theater, the Force would employ its special training in mountain and winter warfare to scale the height, capture it, after which hold it against the inevitable German counterattacks. Astonishing their superiors, the First Special Service Force had succeeded Within the face of seemingly unattainable odds, but suffered a 77 percent casualty rate. Their victory, founded on their aggressive doctrine and extensive training in a lot of combat techniques, would end up instrumental Within the postwar development of special forces.

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