In the French Expeditionary Corps, which had taken over from the British X Corps in the Garigliano bridgehead. General Juin was not satisfied with the objective assigned to him, Monte Majo. It was the same kind of narrow turning movement "within rifle range” that had led to the Belvedere butchery and the setbacks at Cassino. So on April 4 he set out his ideas on the manoeuvre in a memorandum to General Clark. In his opinion, instead of turning right as soon as Monte Majo had been captured, "they should infiltrate under cover of surprise into the massif dominated by the Petrella and seize the
[> Typical Italian terrain: a constant succession of steep ridges divided by swift-flowing streams and rivers. In the foreground two Americans provide covering machine-gun fire for an attack.
A A Canadian prepares to lob a grenade into a house suspected of containing a German position. Behind him two other Canadians are ready to rush in and mop up.
< Germans taken prisoner at Cisterna.
Key ijuintb. . . and, from there, by an outflanking movement, open the way to frontal advances mounted concurrently to secure Highway 7 and the road from Esperia up to and including the road running parallel to the front of Arce.
"The aim being to bring to bear on the Arce sector a force of considerable size so as to be able to break out in strength behind the enemy’s rear and advance towards Rome.”
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