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1944

	Juno Beach Centre - The Capture of Ortona
		General Montgomery believed that the Germans would retreat north of Ortona, in an area where the terrain provided good natural defence positions; and that the coastal city would therefore be an easy prey.
		Throughout the world, the showdown made the headlines and Ortona became a household word: "This is Matthew Halton from the CBC, speaking from Italy… ".
		Ortona became a symbol, as important as Rome.
	www.junobeach.org /e/2/can-eve-rod-ita-ort-e.htm (1198 words)

	Ortona - www.canadiansoldiers.com
		Ortona was a Battle Honour granted to Canadian units participating in actions to liberate the city of Ortona in Dec 1943 as part of The Sangro Campaign during the Italian Campaign of the Second World War.
		Like Stalingrad, the fighting in Ortona was very demanding and took place largely between small groups of men, often one house or one room at a time and booby traps, on-call demolitions and tunnels all played a role in the skillful German defence.
		After Ortona, the entire 1st Division went into winter positions on the south side of the Arielli River Valley, and a three month programme of patrolling began, as reinforcements were absorbed and the armies on both sides waited for spring, and campaigning weather.
	www.canadiansoldiers.com /mediawiki-1.5.5/index.php?title=Ortona (4571 words)

	Military History: Second World War: Italy: Ortona
		Although the Canadian advance through Sicily and southern Italy was relatively straightforward, the battle for Ortona proved to be lengthy, arduous, and costly in terms of casualties.
		The struggle for Ortona would be the bloodiest battle in the Italian campaign to that point.
		Ortona was a typical European town with each building attached to the next.
	www.lermuseum.org /ler/mh/wwii/ortona.html (990 words)

	Ortona - The Canadian Battle - December 1943
		Beginning December 21, 1943, troops from Canada fought a savage battle to oust German soldiers from the Italian coastal port of Ortona, on Italy's Adriatic coast.
		To put that struggle into context, the exhibit follows a Canadian unit through the preliminary stages of the war—forming in Edmonton, then spending frustratingly long years of training and waiting in Britain.
		Finally, on December 21, the Edmonton troops were part of a force sent to secure the town of Ortona.
	www.virtualmuseum.ca /CommunityMemories/AADJ/000a/Exhibits/English/index.html (205 words)

	Ortona, Battle of
		The Battle of Ortona occured from 20-27 December 1943.
		After a week of fierce fighting the town was finally taken, and the remaining German forces withdrew on the night of December 27.
		General Vokes led 1st Canadian Division through the brutal house-to-house fighting and north to the Hitler Line (courtesy Library and Archives Canada/PA-116852).
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0005994 (145 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Lanciano and Ortona
		In 1818 the See of Ortona was united to that of Lanciano by Pius VII.
		Ortona was an episcopal see even in the time of Gregory the Great, who mentions the
		Pius V in 1570 re-established the see, to which in 1569 that of Campli was united.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/08774b.htm (337 words)

	CdnMilitary.ca Remembers 2004 - The Battle of Ortona
		The road to Ortona was a difficult one for the Canadians, having claimed 2,339 officers and men, killed, wounded, and missing.
		The advance towards Ortona began at the Moro, a deep-cut valley with gullies and ridges and no way to cross it due to German demolitions having destroyed bridge crossing prior to the Canadian advance.
		This operation’s main objective was to drive a wedge into the enemy defences to the south and west of Ortona so that these positions could be occupied by the Division and used as a base from which to launch their thrust into the town.
	www.cdnmilitary.ca /ortona/history.htm (1389 words)

	Remembering Ortona
		In late December 1943, Canadian forces fought fiercely in the rubble-filled streets of Ortona, overlooking the Adriatic Sea.
		They were victorious, and the Battle of Ortona was considered among Canada's greatest achievements during the war.
		Remembering Ortona will give teachers and students the historic opportunity to join veterans of the Italian Campaign along with Canadian dignitaries at the 65th Anniversary Ceremony of Remembrance at the Moro River War Cemetery in Ortona, where 1,375 Canadians are buried.
	www.ortona.ca (147 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Mark Zuehlke - Ortona: Canada's Epic World War II Battle at Epinions.com
		Ortona: Canada's Epic World War II Battle is Mark Zuehlke ’s first foray into military history and the first in a trilogy that covers the Canadian campaign in the Italian theatre.
		With the way into Ortona open there were only three units available and in a position to capture the town, The Loyal Edmonton Regiment and the Seaforth Highlanders of Canada, both from the Second Infantry Brigade, supported by the tanks of the Three Rivers Regiment cautiously began to enter the southern approaches to the town.
		Ortona is well illustrated with several fl and white photos of or the battle and some of the key participants.
	www.epinions.com /content_319237230212 (2231 words)

	TorontoSun.com - Peter Worthington - Ortona remembered
		“Ortona was probably the toughest street fighting of the war,” Tojo recalled.
		Ortona’s city fathers, have since designated a restored 15th century convent as a “Museum of Remembrance” of the battle — filled mostly with what citizens of the area scrounged from the battlefield, supplemented with items the Canadians who fought there have donated.
		The other reminders of Canada at Ortona, are 1,375 graves with small, carved maple leaves on headstones in the meticulously tended Moro River Canadian War Cemetery.
	www.torontosun.com /News/Columnists/Worthington_Peter/2006/11/12/2326506.html (890 words)

	Legion Magazine : The Battle For Ortona - Part 18
		Brown’s father, the late Major-General George Brown, was a company commander at Ortona, and the author’s interviews with Brown, Lieutenant-Colonel Jim Stone and other veterans of the Loyal Eddies give special insight into what became one of the most famous battles of the Italian campaign.
		Ortona became "little Stalingrad" as radio journalist Matthew Halton and reporter Ralph Allen wrote feature stories on the battle.
		Ortona was a victory for all of the Canadian troops–and all Canadians.
	www.legionmagazine.com /features/canadianmilitaryhistory/97-11.asp (2188 words)

	Lone Sentry: How the Enemy Defended the Town of Ortona (WWII U.S. Intelligence Bulletin, July 1944) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Toward the end of December, 1943, a Canadian infantry outfit attacked and captured the town of Ortona, in Italy.
		The defensive layout was based on an intimate knowledge of the town, the approaches, the streets, the alleyways, and the best routes from street to street, building to building, and even room to room.
		Ortona is a town of well-built houses and narrow streets.
	www.lonesentry.com /articles/ortona/index.html (878 words)

	The Ortona Toast
		The Ortona mixture is mixed in the proportion of 1 oz of dark rum, 1 oz of water and 1 teaspoon of brown sugar.
		The proposal for the Ortona Toast was introduced to the REC by the Regimental Adjutant, Capt Kent Boughton.
		Based on the toast taken at the Ortona Crossroads in December 1943, it was fitting that this should be adopted as the Regimental Toast on the 110th anniversary of The Regiment, and the 50th Anniversary of the Battle of Ortona.
	thercr.ca /customs_traditions/ortona_toast.htm (1585 words)

	CBC News Indepth: Ortona
		At this point, the Allied advance ran into a heavily fortified and defended German line running across Italy from Ortona in the east to Cassino in the west, blocking all roads to Rome.
		Artillery from both sides pounded Ortona and the Germans also used mortars fired from nearby hills to try and slow the Canadian advance.
		Much of Ortona was reduced to rubble, making it difficult for the Canadians to use tanks.
	www.cbc.ca /news/background/ortona (1685 words)

	Canada at War - Page: WWII: The Battle of Ortona
		For the Canadians, Ortona was the bloodiest battle of the Italian Campaign.
		The capture of Ortona, or the "Italian Stalingrad" is considered among Canada's greatest achievements during the war.
		Ortona is a key command centre for the German Army and is very heavily defended.
	www.wwii.ca /page44.html (3060 words)

	Attacking Ortona - The Italian Campaign - CBC Archives
		Ortona, once a picturesque ancient village on the Adriatic Sea, is being reduced to rubble.
		• Ortona was an ancient port city on the Adriatic coast.
		Artillery and mortars from both sides reduced the town to rubble, and troops clashed in close quarters, moving from house to house.
	archives.cbc.ca /IDC-1-71-1471-9856/conflict_war/italian_campaign/clip4 (305 words)

	Canada at War - Page: WWII: Towards Ortona - The Moro
		In the weeks before the assault on the town of Ortona itself, the Canadians were involved in bitter fighting in the Moro valley on their way to Ortona.
		On December 20th, the troops reached Ortona; it took eight more days of desperate fighting before the city could be captured, as the Canadians moved in slowly, disputing every house and every street with an enemy determined to defend its positions.
		While the racket of automatic weapons and explosions tore apart the silence of Ortona's usually quiet streets, the 2nd Canadian Brigade bypassed the city by the west and marched towards the Riccio River and the villages of Villa Grande and San Tommaso.
	www.wwii.ca /page49.html (1393 words)

	Canada and WW2 - Ortona - Armed Forces - CKA
		Ortona is a costal town located on the Southwest coast of Italy.
		The attack on Ortona lacked in operational sense, but due to the winter season making mountain movement impossible and the fact that the Germans reinforced the city with the 1st Paratroop Division, the Allied planners went ahead with the plan to assault Ortona.
		Ortona also marked the final Â“publicÂ” battle on the Italian front for Canadians, as Normandy was only 6 short months away.
	www.canadaka.net /modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=74 (886 words)

	Battle of Ortona
		The Battle Of Ortona During the invasion of Italy, Canadian soldiers improvised their way into the close combat textbooks, defeating a highly skilled, battle-hardened, well-equipped German enemy in horrifying house-to-house fighting, in an Italian city called Ortona.
		They had driven the Germans into defensive positions in Ortona, and now had to capture what Canadian newscasters referred to as a “second Stalingrad” (the battle in which the German army had been defeated during their attack on Russia).
		Interestingly enough, Wehrmacht is German for ‘defensive forces’, and the Nazi soldiers were excellent defenders, especially when provided with a location such as Ortona, a standard European city with narrow, winding streets, close buildings, and high towers to house their machine guns, anti-tank guns, and snipers.
	members.shaw.ca /tproudfoot/ortona.htm (1007 words)

	Death Comes to Ortona - TIME
		Ortona, for centuries alive and pleasant on a rocky shelf above the slate-colored Adriatic, now lay dead and hideous.
		Most of Ortona's 9,000 folk fled as the Germans mined the approaches, built barricades in the streets, burrowed tanks into the cellars, brought up flame throwers, posted suicide rear guards.
		Some hundreds of British guns, firing an average of 450 shells each, loosed two two-hour barrages on the last gully and ridgetop before Ortona.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,850849,00.html (631 words)

	Ortona: The Western Stalingrad
		In December 1943, the Second Canadian Brigade, 1st Division was assigned to clear the Italian town of Ortona, defended by the elite German 1st Parachute Division.
		At dawn of December 21st, the Edmontons and the Seaforths approached Ortona from the southwest and began fighting their way into the town.
		He states that on December 8th Ortona was merely the Adriatic end of a “makeshift German defense” but by the 14th the press called it a “strategic junction.” On December 16th the press claimed that captured German documents ordered the town held at all costs.
	www.relativerange.com /rrnl/rr08/ortona.htm (1160 words)

	The Battle of Ortona - Introduction
		Ortona is on Italy's Adriatic coast and is the town where German troops tried to delay the Allied advance up the Italian coast or the "boot" as it is often called.
		Canadian troops met the Germans at the Moro River, just outside Ortona, and fought their way into the town during eight bloody days in December of 1943.
		The number of Canadian war dead in the battle that took place within the town of Ortona itself was 104.
	www.youthsource.ab.ca /hyl/ortona/ortona1.htm (364 words)

	Ortona Recreation Area
		Located on the Caloosahatchee River section of the Okeechobee Waterway, Ortona Recreation Area provides visitors with a taste of tranquil, serene country life.
		The Ortona North Day Use Area is open from 8am to sunset.
		Ortona North Boat Launch Ramp - There is a $3.00 daily fee to use the boat launch ramp, or you may purchase an Annual Pass for $30.00 at the Ortona South Campground Office.
	www.saj.usace.army.mil /recreation/ortonas/orindex.htm (687 words)

	Direct from Italy - Day 8 - Veterans Affairs Canada (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Italian school children and Ortona residents surround the Cross of Sacrifice and sing the Canadian national anthem for the Veterans.
		In his address, the Mayor of Ortona sent a message to all Canadians to ask that a city be twinned with Ortona.
		Her brother and her stayed in Ortona and used to shine the boots of the Canadian soldiers in exchange for bread.
	www.vac-acc.gc.ca /clients/sub.cfm?source=feature/italy99/direct_8 (735 words)

	Alibris: Ortona - 0773731989
		Personal interviews with surviving veterans bring to life the slugging match fought street by street and house by house among the boobytrapped ruins of Ortona.
		Ortona's shattered buildings and twenty days of relentless close-quarter combat are brought to life with personal interviews from the surviving veterans of this epic set-piece battle.
		Ortona fell during the most intense fighting ever engaged in by Allied forces in World War II.
	www.alibris.com /books/isbn/0773731989/Ortona (179 words)

	Pvt. Issie Mayoff and the Battle of Ortona
		Of the 1615 graves, 1375 are Canadian, due to the fact that the area in the vicinity of Ortona right through to Orsogna at the southern extremity of the Orsogna/Ortona lateral road had been largely a Canadian battlefield.
		The battle at Ortona was to be the last act of the Battle of the Moro River, which raged for much of December of 1943.
		Ortona, with a peacetime population of 10,000 people, consisted of an "Old Town" to the north, coupled with more modern structures to the south.
	www.mayoff.com /memorial.html (10058 words)

	Ortona Cocktail
		The Ortona Cocktail is the first Canadian military cocktail that I’ve come across.
		The recipe for the Ortona Cocktail requires one ounce of dark rum, one ounce of water and one teaspoon of brown sugar.
		As to whether the dark rum (fl) or and amber rum isn’t stated, but it is know that military rum is usually over proof and dark, sometimes it was referred to as thick.
	www.theartofdrink.com /blog/2006/12/ortona_cocktail.php (752 words)

	Sito del Comune di Ortona
		Realizzato in linea con le nuove direttive eGovernment, il portale dei servizi del Comune di Ortona ti porta dentro la macchina comunale, e porta il palazzo dentro casa tua.
		Entra negli Uffici del Comune, cerca i servizi che ti servono nello spazio Vivere Ortona, oppure dicci Chi sei, abbiamo preparato un menu apposta per te.
		Le Notizie del Comune di Ortona sono disponibili anche in
	www.comune.ortona.chieti.it (257 words)

	ORTONA - St Thomas Apostle...The Jubilee in Abruzzo
		A special mention must go to Ortona’s great cathedral that has the privilege of housing the bones of St Thomas Apostle, which arrived in Ortona on September 6, 1258, booty taken by captain Leone degli Acciaioli when the island of Schio was sacked.
		Ortona dedicates two feast days to the Apostle: September 6 and a rather grander affair called Perdono, held the first Sunday in May, which is linked to the privilege of a plenary indulgence.
		The city enjoyed an era of particular splendour from the Middle Ages to the 16th century, when Margarita of Austria commissioned the building of Palazzo Farnese on the Passeggiata Orientale, a promenade that looks out across the port.
	www.regione.abruzzo.it /giubileo/en/itinerari/ortona (136 words)

	Return to Ortona - Reports from Abroad: Matthew Halton - CBC Archives
		Fifty-five years ago, Matthew Halton's famous reports on the Battle of Ortona detailed the brutal street combat between the Canadian and German soldiers.
		Listeners at home were riveted to the sounds of the crashing shells and Halton's descriptions of "the courtyard of hell." This Christmas, CBC Reporter David Halton, Matthew's son, writes the final epilogue to his father's reports.
		In the brutal battle, Canadians and Germans fought in the streets in houses and alleys.
	archives.cbc.ca /IDC-1-71-636-3477/conflict_war/halton/clip11 (331 words)

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