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D-day Dodgers and the Senio River Crucible: the epitomy of the British Eighth Army frustrations, failures and blood-soaked Gothic Line breakthrough
``The further backward you can look, the further foward you can see,'' Winston Churchill on the benefit of studying history
By Joe Kirwin
From an early age 34-year-old Marco Dalmonte accompanied his father on field trips combing the Adriatic coastal plain and Apennine mountains searching for WWII artifacts and even body parts of soldiers that remained unidentified decades after the Allied Armies engaged in the Gothic Line Offensive. Since that time, Dalmonte's family has accumulated a massive collection of abandoned Army surplus. As he grew older Marco Dalmonte transitioned from combing the…
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