48th Advance to Gothic Line

A 7.5 inch by 9.5 inch of Map #8 hand drawn by Brigadier Eric Haldenby for the Second War regimental history Dileas by Kim Beattie.

In the Second World War, Canadians began fighting in Italy in July 1943. By the summer of 1944, the Allies had pushed German forces to one of their last defensive positions — a stretch of heavily fortified territory in northern Italy known as the Gothic Line. The main job of breaking the Line fell to the 1st Canadian Corps, which accomplished the task after a month of difficult combat, at a cost of more than 4,500 casualties. Although overshadowed by the Allied invasion of France, cracking the Gothic Line was among Canada’s greatest feats of arms of the war.

Associated place
Italy, Gothic Line
Associated event
NA
Associated name(s)
NA
Era
1939 – 1945 (WW 2)
Location of artifact
Research Room Wall
Classification
Art

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