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	AIRLIFT IN THE DOMINICAN CRISIS
		When one parachute infantry regiment, preceded by reconnaissance troops, gained 25 miles the first day, the corps commander put a special task force composed of two battalions of Rangers in the lead, while the airborne division merely blocked to the north to cover assembly of an armored division that was to be committed later.
		While the 82d Airborne Division remained in Naples, one regiment, the 504th Parachute Infantry, was attached on 27 October to the VI Corps.
		It was subsequently committed as an attachment to divisions in the Ardennes from 22-30 December and from 20-29 January 1945.
	www.army.mil /cmh-pg/documents/abnops/tabb.htm (3412 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Paratroopers of German 1st Parachute Division occupied the ruins of the abbey and turned it into a fortress that withstood all that was thrown at them for the next three months.
		The exhauted 4th Indian Division and 2 New Zealand Division were withdrawn and replaced respectively in the mountains by British 78th Division and in the town by British 1st Guards Brigade.
		A single armoured division, the 26th Panzer, was in transit from north of Rome where it had been held anticipating the non-existent seaborn landing the Allies had faked and so was unavailable to fight.
	www.gamecheatz.net /games.php?title=Battle_of_Monte_Cassino (6515 words)

	Canada at War - Page » WWII: The Gothic Line (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		To deceive the Germans into believing the attack would come in the west, the 1st Canadian Division was concentrated near Florence, then secretly moved northwards to the Adriatic.
		Five kilometres south of the Conca, the forward troops came under fire from the German 1st Parachute Division, while heavy fighting was developing on the Coriano Ridge to the west.
		That same day, the 1st Division was relieved by the New Zealand Division, ready with the 5th Armoured Division to sweep across the Lombardy Plain to Bologna and the Po.
	www.wwii.ca /page79.html (1227 words)

	The 88th Division History
		The 351st was directed to attack northwest, protect division flanks and maintain contact with the neighboring division and with the 350th until that unit advanced abreast of the 351st.
		Division plans to drive on to the Arno were changed and the units were directed to seize commanding terrain in their particular zones and maintain aggressive patrolling to the river.
		Its importance to the Germans was emphasized by Maj. Gen.
	members.aol.com /ItalyWW2/Division88.htm (17312 words)

	WWII
		German soldiers of the 29th Mechanized Grenadier Division and all of the 305th Division controlled the area around Fallascoso.
		The river flow was so strong that many of the wounded troops on the Fallascoso side of the Sangro could not return to their base camps on the east side of the Sangro and died of exposure.
		It is believed the German soldiers were of an Alpine regiment garrisoned at Torricella Peligna and they were taking revenge because three of their men were killed the night before.
	www.fallascoso.com /wwii.htm (2617 words)

	Remembering Sikh Soldiers in Italy
		The German retreat did not last long, however; on 5th July the Allies encountered resolute resistance in defence of positions just south of a line Ancona-Arezzo-Leghorn, and in particular there was a spell of fairly heavy and inconclusive fighting on both sides of the Chiana valley, leading to Arezzo.
		At first the 5th Division advanced along the north of the "toe" and the 1st Canadian Division through the mountainous centre; although opposition was weak, the advance was slowed down by demolitions and difficult country.
		On 6th December the 1st Canadian Division (which had relieved the 78th Division), and on 7th December the 8th Indian Division crossed the Moro River and drove towards Ortona; in Ortona itself for over a week (20th-28th December) there was most bitter street fighting between the Canadians and the German 1st Parachute Division.
	www.sikhspectrum.com /052005/italy_sikh_memorial.htm (6584 words)

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		The German 1st Parachute Regiment was withdrawn and sent to bolster the defence against the British 4th Division.
		The 5th Kressowa Division suffered heavy casualties and the only option left was to build up a reserve of three half-battalions from the "B" echelon troops and others who had not been directly involved in the battle up to this point.
		Once the Germans were deprived of their positions overlooking the Liri Valley, they were forced to pull back to the Hitler Line, which itself was now in danger of being outflanked from the south by the French Corps under the command of General Juin.
	www.battleofmontecassino.com /pole10.htm (1709 words)

	Minturno To the Appennines - 85th Division (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Division during the last months of the war for distribution to the soldiers and their families.
		Division was placed on a 72-hour alert, prepared to move to Anzio by water, but is soon appeared that the joining of the forces would be achieved sooner than had been originally expected.
		On August 26th the Division was relieved from the line, and moved south to assembly areas between Montespertoli and Certaldo, on the slopes of the ridge separating the Elsa and Pesa River valleys.
	members.aol.com /Custermen85/History85.htm (18652 words)

	442ND Go for Broke
		Facing them was the 1st German Parachute Division(a crack division entrenched in the Gustav Line).
		Below the German position, the German army had demolished every building and cleared away the trees so that any movement can be clearly spotted.
		The 34th Division with the 100th almost took Casino in one day, but before they could they ran out of men and material.
	www.katonk.com /442nd/442/page3.html (514 words)

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