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The bombing of Monte Cassino.
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Article
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*BATTLE of Cassino, Italy, 1944
*WORLD War II aerial operations
*BENEDICTINE monasteries
WORLD War II campaigns
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0018-2753
Abstract
Comments on the bombing of a historic Benedictine abbey by Allied bombers in 1944 and ponders whether art and religion were inevitable casualties of war. The Monte Cassino, birthplace of the Benedictine Order; Description of the bombardment by war correspondent Christopher Buckley.