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Sometimes remembered as the "D-Day Dodgers", in reference to their role away from Normandy, men in Italy faced brutal conditions as they battled to take Monte Cassino and dislodge enemy soldiers.
From BBC • May 31, 2024
He fled agricultural service in Kilmarnock as a teenager to get to Glasgow to enlist as an infantryman before ending up "right in the forefront" of the battle for Monte Cassino.
From BBC • May 31, 2024
“They’re already assuming he’s toast,” said Daniel Cassino, executive director of the Fairleigh Dickinson University poll.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 17, 2023
“It’s likely he’ll transition onto some new media platform or to start his own media platform,” said Cassino, author of “Fox News and American Politics: How One Channel Shapes American Politics and Society.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 26, 2023
He refused the archbishopric of Naples and the abbacy of Monte Cassino.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" by Various
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