Answer Sheet

1. Canadian Veteran Bernard Finestone talks about combats with the Germans. In the battlefield, who did the Canadian soldiers try to avoid shooting at?

Canadian soldiers tried to avoid shooting at Italian farmers.

2. Canadian Veteran Maurice White talks about fighting in Ortona. Why was it very difficult for the soldiers to go through the streets?

The Germans had blown up buildings, plugging up the streets.

3. Canadian Veteran Vernon Dowie describes the war technique “mouse holing”. Explain it in your own words.

“We’d blow a hole in the beginning of a block of houses and then they would go in and blow out the next wall.”

4. According to Canadian Veteran Ralph Paulsen, what did he consider to be the saddest thing in the world?

“It was the saddest thing in the world to see a soldier laying his brother to rest.”

5. What type of building with walls nine feet thick protected the Germans at the top of Monte Cassino?

A monastery

6. Which Allied soldiers finally took a German strong point after Canadians used smoke shells to blind the enemy?

The Polish soldiers - “The Poles got there, enough of them to take the place.”

7. Complete this sentence from Canadian Veteran George “Herb” Peppard: “He wasn’t praying to live to the ripe old age of 60 or 70, he was praying…”

“…he was praying that he’d live to see another day.”