Canada at War, Part 7 : Road to Ortona

Collaborators : Brittain, Donald | Clish, Stanley | Jones, Peter | Office national du film du Canada

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July 1943 - January l944. The objective at last--Fortress Europe. The Canadian 1st Division, flanked by the British and Americans, pushes into Italy. Italians surrender but the Germans resist. Ortona, a 15th-century town, riddled with bullets and grenades, is taken by Canadians in fierce and costly street fighting.

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