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Cape Breton Highlanders

Newspaper Clippings - Second World War Era - Dispatches and Articles From War Zones

This section contains one newspaper clipping dispatch dated September 30, 1944, by Canadian press war correspondent Doug How. It pertains to the battle for the village of Montecchio and the adjacent Hill 120, on the Adriatic front in Italy. The article mentions the Cape Breton Highlanders and their role in the fighting for Hill 120 on August 30, 1944. 

The hill mentioned in the article is better known as Hill 120.

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