Monastery Bombed (First Pictures)
Series
- Series Name
- Warwork News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 1 / 2
- Summary
- General Alexander supervises the supply of reinforcements and Boston aircraft in Monte Cassino, where a Benedictine monastery has been used by the enemy as a fortress. Allies push Germans in Monte Cassino further back, and warn Italians to leave the monastery before the bombing raid. Allied air attack on monastery; fire bombs destroy German machine gun nests on the hillsides.
- Keywords
- Buildings and structures; Aviation; Military
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- Imperial War Museum Film and Video Archive
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- Address
- Lambeth Road
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- The IWM also preserves the original nitrate film copies for the World War II period of British Paramount News, Gaumont British News and Universal News.
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