Monte Cassino

Cassino, IT

Site of some of the bloodiest fighting of the Italian Campaign, where four Allied assaults between January and May 1944 attempted to breach the German **Gustav Line** anchored on the hill-top Benedictine monastery. American, British, Indian, New Zealand, French, and Polish forces sustained an estimated 55,000 casualties before the **2nd Polish Corps** finally captured the heights on May 18, 1944.