Canadians in Italy
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| ITALY
in the spring is beautiful, but this year the tourists wear khaki, and the apple
trees may be booby traps. Some pointed out to Field Marshall Rommel the other day fields of spring flowers blowing in the wind. He remarked that the interesting fact was there were 80,000 mines buried beneath them. It requires the perverted mentality of the Germans to see spring flowers as a splendid camouflage for mines that maim and destroy. After the bitter fighting at the Morro River, Cassino and the Anzio bridgehead the boys out of the lines are taking every opportunity to swim in the Mediterranean and do a little beachcombing at the base. The sun is hot, the water warm and when mail comes from home life is tolerable. There is a lot of work to be done behind the lines because the Germans. |
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