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Italy
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Other Allied bombers blasted rail-
way bridges north Of Rome.
IS Nazi Planes Active.
About IS enemy planes were re-
ported active over the battle area
Two were destroyed against a loss
of three Allied planes.
The newspapers which conceded
failure ct Casino, were the Stars
land Stripes Of the, American Army
land the CANA diam Forces Maple
Leaf Theyaalso gave expressions 10
\ the Allied determination to- prufit
from the bitter experience and even
tually capture the key town on the
road to Rome.
Complete absence of mention of
ground activity in yesterdays Allied
icommuAtQtles appeared to indicate
lthat New ZEALAND troops who fought
their way into the last quarter Of
Casino had for the moment aban-
ldmed the effort to drive the Ger
mans from their remaining strong
holds.
THE Germans still stand strad-
ding the central road to Rome"
Stars and Stripes said, but they
live on borrowed time. The Allies
have learned many lessons in the
battle OF Casino, lessons which will
count wherever Germans are fought.
The British and Americans who in
wade Europe from the west will
profit by those who have gone be-
fore them in the shattered town in
the mountains of Italy. When
Allied soldiers start again on the
road to Rome their way will have
been made easier by the hard
learned knowledge gained in the
fighting at Casino"
Not Final Failure.
The Maple Leaf said: THE Allied
|attack combination of bombs from
the air, shells from artillery and
punch from the infantry has failed.
THE Allies have been beaten at
Casino, but there is no reason to
believe that theirs is final failure.
The formula is learned the hard
way.
THE next time the forces who
know they are fighting for freedom
hit Casino, it will stay hit"
In a dispatch from the Casino
front, Associated Press Correspond
ents Edward Kennedy and George
Tucker wrote that "bombers cannot
beat good infantrymen. When the
will to resist is strong, as at Casino,
ground troops in good position can
withstand anything planes can drop
on them and hold their ground.
They may have to run into holes
like rats when the bombs come, but
after the bombing, they can emerge
and fight again.
Came Out Of City Ruins.
when the Allied troops went into
Casino (after the March Is air
bombardment), they found pillboxes
under many of the piles Of rubble,
antitank guns In cellars, and the
debris alive with snipers. One Ger
man sniper is credited with killing
"a Allied soldiers. When hand
grenades failed to dislodge him,
tanks were run over his position,
but this did not silence the sniper.
THE lesson of Casino is one the
Russians apparently have known all
along and one which the Germans
learned at Stalingrad. The Ger
mans threw clouds of bombers
against Stalingrad but the Russians
buried themselves under the city
and then came out again. The
Germans apparently decided to
apply this lesson at Casino.
THE Casino bombing also pro-
vided some check on the accuracy
of bombing.
Army and Air Force chiefs had
"a grandstand view of the spectacle
and saw many bombs fall wide of
the target.
Some were mistakenly dropped
miles away and killed Allied troops"
incidents of this type have
occasionally occurred before in
terrain where opposing lines were
both close and hard to define.)
"All observers agree, however, that
the BIG Marauders gave a per-
Torrance of precision bombing