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'ON THIS SITE THOUSANDS OF MEN FOUGHT AND DIED' |
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10% discount for groups of students under eighteen (18) years of age accompanied by adults (school or college staff). It is a requirement that scanned age ID for students be forwarded to us by e-mail at the time of booking or shortly thereafter. |
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20% discount for relatives of Anzio veterans. |
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25% discount for educators. It is a requirement that scanned current employment ID be forwarded to us by e-mail at the time of booking or shortly thereafter. |
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Minors under twelve (12) years of age are welcome on our tour free of charge. One minor gratis per two (2) paying adults. |
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Operation Fischfang / On February 16th 1944, German forces launched a major offensive on the line of Via Anziate near 'The Factory'. 'Fischfang', or 'Fish Trap' was an intense five day battle. The 14th Army, 76th Panzer Corps and 1st Fallschirmjäger Corps, supported by 452 artillery units, heavily outnumbered the U.S. 45th. Division's 157th and 179th Infantry Regiments around Carroceto, but were unable to make any progress in the face of sustained Allied artillery attacks, which fired fifteen rounds for each one of their own. The human cost was high, 10-12,000 killed, injured, missing or captured a most conservative estimate. / |
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