WW11 Italian Campaign Memories

[Geoff Winnington-Ball (RIP)]

Originally posted by Pete Ashby
My Father took part in the North African Campaign, did a beach landing in Scilly and another one into main land Italy, and he spent 2.5 years of his seven years service in Italy ending up on VE night in Yugoslavia with the partisans.

Truly a forgotten war, but one evey bit as malevolent (perhaps even more so) than those in Italy and NW Europe.

He too felt very much like the forgotten side show, he also didn't have a lot of time for Mark Clark.

No one does, even Americans in the know. A bloody disaster, that man.

I must say that in this country it is the Burma men who are truly not recognised either by deed or in print.

Read QUARTERED SAFE OUT HERE, by George MacDonald Fraser. Also, THE ROAD PAST MANDALAY, by John Masters. Burma HAS been recognized, at least for and by those of us who actually give a shit about these things.