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Volume 7 - No. 171 - January 7, 1944

Our Monitors Help the Land Fighting in Italy

Jan1944

Our Monitors Help the Land Fighting in Italy

Seldom in the news, but doing a magnificent and highly important job, the Navy's monitors are specialized warships with a single purpose – the smashing of land targets. How these vessels, armed with 1

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I Was There! - Men, Mules and Mud I Saw on Monte Camino

Jan1944

I Was There! - Men, Mules and Mud I Saw on Monte Camino

One of the key heights on the road to Rome, Monte Camino enemy positions were broken into by the 5th Army by December 7, 1943. War Correspondent Alexander Clifford described appalling conditions maste

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