For four months, Germany's elite paratroopers held Monte Cassino against everything the Allies could throw — Americans, New Zealanders, Indians, Poles. Four nations. Four offensives. Nothing moved them. Field Marshal Alexander called them the best division in the entire German army.<br /><br />Then they were ordered to defend a line that bore Hitler's own name — a fortress of concrete, Panther turrets, and wire that German commanders believed no force on earth could break.<br /><br />On May 23, 1944, Canadian battalions from Vancouver, Fredericton, and Montreal walked into that line across a thousand yards of open wheat field. What happened in the next fourteen hours forced the German command to use a word they had never used about their paratroopers before. And when they radioed for orders, headquarters went silent.<br /><br />This is the story of Canada's bloodiest day in Italy — and what the Green Devils admitted when it was over.<br /><br />#canadianwarstories #ww2 #canadianarmy #militaryhistory #canadianhistory #worldwar2
