"Operation Devon" Battlefield Tour🔧 - MONTE CASSINO WAR TOURS

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

The small port of Termoli was the extreme left of the German defences the German had reinforced the battalions in the town. The Allied had in fact organized a concentrated landing in Termoli made by a Special Service Brigade, who had sailed from Manfredonia on midday on the 2. The seaborne assault was made by a Special Service Brigade, including the 40th Royal Marine Commando took the German garrison by surprise. When the 11th Brigade, 78th Infantry Division joined by coast road Termoli, the soldiers formed with the Special Forces a defending perimeter about the town. In the next two days, the 36th and 38th Brigade reinforced by sea the elements of the 11th Brigade. The 16th Panzer Division, the 79th and 69th Panzer Grenadier Regiment tried to resist, counterattacking the Allied until when the Canadians arrived again by the coast road.

In three days, the British had stronged the bridgehead, but the Germans tried to organize a counterattack on the 5. The situation was desperate for the Allied when the Three Rivers Regiment arrived at Campomarino, souther than Termoli along the Biferno River

On the night of 3-4 October the Three Rivers Regiment was asked to reach the 78th Division as soon as possible, because the Intelligence staff had reported a German probable attack to the Allied bridgehead in Termoli. On 6 October, the Germans attacked the Allies but with the help of the Three Rivers Regiment they could destroy the German forces. The Germans withdraw inland and up the coast.