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The Years Back - 6, The Italian Campaign (Episode Six)
Television (Full Length Episode) – 1973
In this The Years Back episode, presenter Bernard Kearns charts New Zealand's Sixth Brigade and Māori Battalion as they fight their way through Italy between 1943 and 1945. Reaching Monte Cassino in 1944, the force suffered 1600 casualties during 12 weeks of bitter fighting. Using NFU pictures, the documentary traces the advance north after Cassino falls, and includes the bloodless capture of Padua and the setting up of the New Zealand Forces Club in the best hotel in Venice. The documentary ends with Kiwi forces facing down Tito's Yugoslav partisans in Trieste.
Whatever the positions were that we had to attack, we seemed to be attacking like a staircase. The Jerry’s defences were built up and up and up behind the forward lines.– Soldier Rangi Logan
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Acknowledgements
Archives New Zealand copy reference W3471/16BW469
16mm motion picture film
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