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A Soldiers Thoughts - Photo's.
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The Wreckage of Cassino:
The Abbey at Montecassino pre-war (inset) & after the bombing.
Photo: Alexander Turnbull library, copied from the Spring 1994 Defence Journal Quarterly.
The town of Cassino pre-war.
This photo from an old photo-postcard Ian picked up in a ruined building in Cassino during the fighting. The view is from the Abbey with Castle Hill in the centre rear of the photo, and shows the terraced slopes in the foreground.
Cassino after the massive aerial bombardment. (Click on the photo for an enlargement).
This photo courtesy of the WW2 Sound & Image Archive.
At "work" in Cassino:
 
Phot 1: l-r AJ Wilson, J Donoghue, LJ Leash after the March assault on Cassino.
Photo 2: Infantry advance through the rubble of the town of Cassino. Note the fixed bayonet - in the rubble of Cassino you were more likely to run into an enemy than see them in the distance.
Photo 3: G Reid operates a wireless set with one of the NZ tanks behind in the rubble.
All 3 photo's from the Alexander Turnbull library, copied from the Spring 1994 Defence Journal Quarterly.
Cassino today
Photo shows the 28th Maori Battalion line of attack towards the Railway station with the rebuilt Abbey on the Mount in the background.
Photo John Tonkin-Cavell from the Spring 1994 NZ Defence Journal Quarterly.
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