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We Came Upon The First Case Of Atrocities Committed By The Germans In And Around Caiazzo. In The Nearby Woods We Found The Bodies Of Four Girls, Who Had Been Raped And Then Beaten And Kicked To Death.
| Rudolph Charles von Ripper | 1947 | 2022.183.7 | |
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The Olive Trees Were Our Best Friends And Our Worst Enemies; They Gave Us Cover, But Also Protected The Enemy.
| Rudolph Charles von Ripper | 1947 | 2022.183.8 | |
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Front-Line Communications Was One Of The Toughest Jobs.. Night and Day The Battalion Wire Men Worked To Keep The Lines In Operation.
| Rudolph Charles von Ripper | 1947 | 2022.183.9 | |
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At Dawn Our Patrols Went Out To Look For The Enemy, Feel Out His Positions. One Never Knew If Death Were Not Lurking Behind The Walls Of The Wrecked Houses.
| Rudolph Charles von Ripper | 1947 | 2022.183.10 | |
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After The Bloody Battle For Monte Pantano We Moved Back Into Line At San Pietro. In The Ruins Of The Town Our Medics Set Up A First Aid Station.
| Rudolph Charles von Ripper | 1947 | 2022.183.11 | |
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From The Mountain Above San Pietro One Could Look Down Upon San Vittore, Cervaro, Cassino - The German Defense Line Blocking The Way To Rome. We Went Into The Attack - The Long And Bloody Battle Of Cassino Was On.
| Rudolph Charles von Ripper | 1947 | 2022.183.12 | |
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The Little Town Of San Vittore, Our First Obstacle In The Advance Toward Cassino, Was Stubbonly Defended And We Had To Fight From House To House To Clear the Germans Out Of Its Ruins.
| Rudolph Charles von Ripper | 1947 | 2022.183.13 | |
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In The Woods Sloping Down To The Rapido River, We Sat Around The Foxholes Awaiting The Orders For The Crossing.
| Rudolph Charles von Ripper | 1947 | 2022.183.15 | |
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Purple Heart Valley - The Earth Along The Banks Of The Rapido River Was Soaked With The Blood Of Many Of Our Buddies Who Had Given Their Lives During The Crossing.
| Rudolph Charles von Ripper | 1947 | 2022.183.16 | |
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For Weeks - Until We Were Withdrawn - We Held The Northeast Corner Of The Town of Cassino, From The Old Jail Building To The Ruins Of The Castle, Clinging, Despite Heavy Losses To The Wrecked Buildings.
| Rudolph Charles von Ripper | 1947 | 2022.183.17 | |
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After We Had Been Relieved At Cassino And After A Short Rest Period, We Moved, Mostly On LST's, To The Anzio Beachhead.
| Rudolph Charles von Ripper | 1947 | 2022.183.18 | |
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The White And Silvery Clouds Of The Smoke Screens On The Anzio Beachhead Helped To Protect Us From The Inquisitve Eyes Of The Germans.
| Rudolph Charles von Ripper | 1947 | 2022.183.19 | |
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Our Supremacy In Artilley Was One Of Our Strongest Point During The Whole Campaign. On The Beachhead We Concentrated Large Number Of Guns.
| Rudolph Charles von Ripper | 1947 | 2022.183.20 | |
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Information Gained From Interrogation of PW's Proved One Of The Most Valuable Sources Of Intelligence.
| Rudolph Charles von Ripper | 1947 | 2022.183.21 | |
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Our Positions Along The Mussolini Canal In Anzio Were Dug Into The Bank Of The Canal; From There We Looked Over The Flat Pontine Marshes Toward The Enemy On The Hills.
| Rudolph Charles von Ripper | 1947 | 2022.183.22 | |
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In The Last Days Of April 1944 Came The Signal For The Attack - After Hard Fighting We Broke The German Resistance And The Second Big Push Was On.
| Rudolph Charles von Ripper | 1947 | 2022.183.23 | |
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On To Rome - After The Breakthrough Some Of Our Units Were Attached To The First Armored Division And Rode On The Tanks Into The Eternal City.
| Rudolph Charles von Ripper | 1947 | 2022.183.24 | |
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All Through The Italian Campaign The Germans Used Every Type Of Mine - With The Infantry Went The Engineers With Their Mine-Detectors.
| Rudolph Charles von Ripper | 1947 | 2022.183.25 | |
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Waiting, Always Waiting - Between Battles, Between Moves, The Doughfoot Stretched Out In The Ditches Along The Road, In The Wrecked Houses - Any Place To Rest His Tired Body.
| Rudolph Charles von Ripper | 1947 | 2022.183.26 | |
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All Along The Italian Peninsula, We Crossed Streams Of Refugees, Fleeing From The Danger Of Battle With Their Most Precious Belongings.
| Rudolph Charles von Ripper | 1947 | 2022.183.27 | |
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After The Long Push Up The Coast And After We Broke Through The Gothic Line, We Were Bogged Down By Winter Conditions In The Apennine Mountains Along Bologna, Along Highway 65.
| Rudolph Charles von Ripper | 1947 | 2022.183.28 | |
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Snow Came. Mortars, Artillery, and Night Patrols Played the Dominant Part of the Fighting During Those Long, Static Winter Months.
| Rudolph Charles von Ripper | 1947 | 2022.183.29 | |
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Our Guns Were Pointing North, Our Eyes Were Looking North Toward The Plain Of The Po Valley... We Were Waiting For Spring.. Spring Which Would - And Which Did - Bring The Final Battle, The Big Push North, And The German Defeat.
| Rudolph Charles von Ripper | 1947 | 2022.183.30 | |
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Proof For Etching #23 - In The Last Days Of April 1944 Came The Signal For The Attack - After Hard Fighting We Broke The German Resistance And The Second Big Push Was On.
| Rudolph Charles von Ripper | 1946 | 2022.183.31 | |