Infantrymen versus Tiger tanks
5th December 1943: An infantry soldier writes home with a graphic account of a battle in Italy earlier in the year, a wounded survivor who only just escaped

The campaign in Italy was characterised by assaults across the numerous rivers that lay in the path of the Allies moving north, or in assaults for hilltop and mountaintop positions. At the…
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