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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 August 19, 1944, by Canadian press war correspondent Bill Boss. It pertains to the conditions of the Italians and their land and towns in the area around Ortona, on the Adriatic coast of central Italy, seven to eight months after the Canadians fought in that area. The article makes mention of the Cape Breton Highlanders and their first battle in the Arielli Valley. 

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