AMERICAN SECTOR
AMERICAN EXPERIENCE TOUR
Following the route of the American divisions in Anzio from the landing to the breaktrough Cisterna.
Our memorial tour begins with the visit of the Sicily Rome American Cemetery which is located not far from the beaches of the landing, right in the heart of Nettuno and commemorates the US soldiers fallen from the landing in Sicily on 9thJuly 1943 to the liberation of Rome on 4thJune 1944.
This expansive place is the final resting place of 7,861 soldiers. We will follow the route of the 3° US division and the Rangers towards Cisterna, visiting along the route the headquarter for the commanders and also memorials to Isolabella and Cisterna.
May be included also the tour of one of the largest WW2 museum in Europe with dioramas in grand scale of the Italian campaign. WWII History will come alive! Please, contact me for cost and a personalized itinerary.
HIGHLIGHTS
THE CROSSES GROW ON ANZIO
Oh, gather 'round me, comrades; and
listen while I speak
Of a war, a war, a war where hell is
six feet deep.
Along the shore, the cannons roar. Oh
how can a soldier sleep?
The going's slow on Anzio. And hell is
six feet deep.
Praise be to God for this captured sod that
rich with blood does seep.
With yours and mine, like butchered
swine's; and hell is six feet deep.
That death awaits there's no debate;
no triumph will we reap.
The crosses grow on Anzio, where hell is
six feet deep.
By #AudieMurphy, 1948 Company B, 1st Battalion, 15th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division
This poem was written in the spring of 1948 and was published in Murphy's book TO HELL AND BACK. In the the book, the poem is credited to his comrade Kerrigan but the reality is that Audie was the author. The inspiration of the poem came from David McClure who once mentioned to Audie that a surviving World War I veteran had described No Man's Land as "hell six feet deep". The phrase's ressonance appealed to Audie who then penned the poem and presented it to McClure on the next day (Simpson, page 374)
Audie Leon Murphy O-1692509 Born 20 June 1924, Kingston, Texas |