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Soldiers on Cassino battlefront

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Soldiers on Cassino battlefront

Soldiers clamber over ruins during manoeuvers on the Cassino battlefront on 5 April 1944, during the Italian Campaign. The New Zealanders were engaged in street fighting over mounds of rubble after the wholesale destruction of the town of Cassino by Allied aerial and artillery bombardment.

Credit

Alexander Turnbull Library
War History Collection
Reference: DA-05502-F
Photographer: George Kaye
Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Soldiers on Cassino battlefront, URL: https://nzhistory.govt.nz/media/photo/soldiers-cassino-battlefront, (Manatū Taonga — Ministry for Culture and Heritage), updated