Sacrifice, slaughter, and stupidity.
Three hundred and fifty thousand dead soldiers, along with no accurate count of the civilian dead,.
The enormity of the mistakes of Monte Cassino was misunderstood and overlooked then and remains under-reported and ignored to this day.
The Battle for Monte Cassino, in southern Italy during the bitter winter of 1943-1944, was the Most gruesome, spine-wilting, pointlessly devastating Battle of America\'s Twentieth Century, perhaps in all of America\'s history.
Sacrifice, slaughter, and stupidity