{"id":5896,"date":"2016-01-15T21:48:25","date_gmt":"2016-01-16T03:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=5896"},"modified":"2016-01-15T21:48:25","modified_gmt":"2016-01-16T03:48:25","slug":"this-week-in-the-war-10-16-january-1944-advance-towards-monte-cassino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=5896","title":{"rendered":"This week in the War, 10&#8211;16 January 1944: Advance towards Monte Cassino"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_5893\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?attachment_id=5893\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5893\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5893\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5893\" src=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Wcassino1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"US soldiers carry back wounded after an attempted crossing of the Rapido River, Italy 1944 [Public domain]\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Wcassino1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Wcassino1-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Wcassino1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Wcassino1.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5893\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">US soldiers carry back wounded after an attempted crossing of the Rapido River, Italy 1944 [Public domain]<\/p><\/div>This week in the war, on 14 January 1944, the Americans bombarded German forces defending the Gustav Line&#8212;the last obstacle before the\u00a0Italian\u00a0town of Cassino and the famous Monte Cassino abbey.<\/p>\n<p>The following day, the US II Corps mounted an attack towards the Rapido River and captured Mount Trocchio.\u00a0The Americans\u00a0seemed poised to break through the Gustav Line and, from there, to advance on Rome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week in the war, on 14 January 1944, the Americans bombarded German forces defending the Gustav Line&#8212;the last obstacle before the\u00a0Italian\u00a0town of Cassino and the famous Monte Cassino abbey. The following day, the US II Corps mounted an attack &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=5896\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[953,840],"class_list":["post-5896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-war-ii","tag-gustav-line","tag-italy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5896"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5898,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5896\/revisions\/5898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}