Comments on: The bombing of Monte Cassino http://blog.oup.com/2013/02/bombing-monte-cassino/ Academic insights for the thinking world. Fri, 24 May 2013 18:48:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Nicholas Sanders http://blog.oup.com/2013/02/bombing-monte-cassino/#comment-368239 Nicholas Sanders Sun, 17 Mar 2013 06:17:35 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=35461#comment-368239 Axis forces is hardly any better - the Italians were out, and the Japanese didn't figure in operations in Italy - Germans is correct. Axis forces is hardly any better – the Italians were out, and the Japanese didn’t figure in operations in Italy – Germans is correct.

]]> By: Nicholas Sanders http://blog.oup.com/2013/02/bombing-monte-cassino/#comment-368051 Nicholas Sanders Sat, 16 Mar 2013 12:58:41 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=35461#comment-368051 This action was not in fact against the Italians as stated by the poster, but rather against the Germans - Italy had surrendered prior to the landings at Salerno in September 1943, and was no longer a belligerent. It was completely pointless anyway. This action was not in fact against the Italians as stated by the poster, but rather against the Germans – Italy had surrendered prior to the landings at Salerno in September 1943, and was no longer a belligerent.

It was completely pointless anyway.

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