15-130 garand Picture of the Day - First Special Service Force

[Mark in Rochester]

Canadian personnel of the First Special Service Force awaiting medical evacuation, near Venafro, Italy, January 1944.

First Special Service Force - Canada at War



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Great picture. I recognized that background as Venafro, I have a picture of my Dad there in late November 1943.

I had a chance to visit Venafro a couple years ago. I walked through a huge French and North African (French Moroccan, Algerian, Tunisian) cemetery there in Venafro. Christians on one side of the hedge and their Muslim allies on the other side.

Monte Cassino is a few miles away. That was amazing to visit too, both because of its WWII significance and as St. Benedict's monastery.

Cass