In January 1944, the U.S. 36th Infantry Division faced insurmountable odds during the Battle of the Rapido River. This video ...

the January 1944 Battle of the Rapido River in Italy. Shortly after the United States had entered the war, England’s Prime Minister Winston Churchill began advocating for an attack into southern ...

In the battle for Monte Sammucro alone ... the division was ordered to take the remaining ground on the near bank of the Rapido River in preparation for an assault to establish a bridgehead ...

Then the Rapido River crossing was largely forgotten ... Jan. 21 is the 70th anniversary of the ferocious two-day battle, and we commemorate that dark day in Texas history by revisiting a column ...

The high-risk, high-payoff battle plan of “the Anzio idea ... boats and bridging gear across a wide plain toward the Rapido River. German observers in the mountains had the 36th's assault ...

(Tribune News Service) — Billy Earl Kirby's own blood helped give Italy's Rapido River its second name ... "It was the battle of Cassino. It was probably one of the biggest battles in Italy ...

--(Delayed)--A little El Paso sergeant who killed a German with his own machine-pistol, told today how he ran two and a half miles barefooted to safety after swimming the icy Rapido River when his ...

More than 3,000 American soldiers, including Capt. John L. Chapin and other El Pasoans, were killed during the battle at Rapido River, described by some historians as one of the worst tactical ...

His worst memory, far worse than the orangutan, was the crossing of Italy's Rapido River in the Battle of Monte Cassino, one of those times Allied generals were badly duped by the Germans.