This street commemorates those who fought at Melfa River in the Second World War.
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This street commemorates those who fought at Melfa River in the Second World War.
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This street commemorates those who fought at the Strait of Messina in the Second World War.
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This street commemorates those who fought at the Battle of Moreuil Wood in the First World War.
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This street commemorates those who fought at Ortona in the Second World War. The mediaeval town of Ortona, with its castle and stone buildings, was situated on a ledge overlooking the Adriatic Sea. Its steep, rubble-filled streets limited the use of tanks and artillery and thus made this an infantryman's struggle. During several days of vicious street fighting, the Canadians smashed their way through walls and buildings—"mouseholing" as they called it. This was Christmas 1943. Meanwhile, a subsidiary attack had been launched to the northwest and the Germans, in danger of being cut off, withdrew from Ortona. The city officially fell on December 28.
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This street commemorates those who fought at Cassino in the Second World War.
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This street commemorates those who fought at the Battle in Liri Valley in the Second World War.
In the spring of 1944, the Germans still held the line of defence north of Ortona, as well as the mighty bastion of Monte Cassino which blocked the Liri corridor to the Italian capital. Determined to maintain their hold on Rome, the Germans constructed two formidable lines of fortifications, the Gustav Line, and 14.5 kilometres behind it, the Adolf Hitler Line.
During April and May of 1944, the Eighth British Army, including the 1st Canadian Corps, was secretly moved across Italy to join the Fifth U.S. Army in the struggle for Rome. Here under the dominating peak of Cassino, the Allied armies hurled themselves against the enemy position. Tanks of the 1st Canadian Armoured Brigade (formerly 1st Canadian Army Tank Brigade) supported the Allied attack. After four days of hard fighting, the German defences were broken from Cassino to the Tyrrhenian Sea and the Germans moved back their second line of defence. On May 18, Polish troops took the Cassino position and the battered monastery at the summit.
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This street commemorates those who fought at Caen in the Second World War.
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This street commemorates those who fought at the Dieppe Raid in the Second World War.
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This street commemorates those who fought at Falaise in the Second World War.
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This street commemorates those who fought at the Battle of Ypres in the First World War.