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  • Battle of Ortona
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  • Battle of Ortona
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  • bloody battle
  • Ortona
  • Battle for Ortona
  • Battle of Ortona in 1943.
  • Fight for Ortona
  • Ortona line
  • Ortona was captured
  • battle for Ortona
  • battle of Ortona
  • captured the town of Ortona
clgo:causalties
  • 964 woundedref|Mainly Canadian. Includes losses to the Loyal Edmonton Regiment of 172 casualties, of which 63 killed; the Seaforth Highlanders 103, of which 41 killed. Sources are often confused between figures for the eight days of fighting at Ortona and those for the whole of the December campaign. Zuehlke gives Canadian losses for this period of 1375 dead and 964 wounded while the Canadiansoldiers.com website says casualties for Canadian 1st Infantry Division in December (including 1st Brigade's crossing of the Moro, 2nd Brigade's fighting in the town and 3rd Brigade's attempted outflanking attack) totaled 4,206 including 695 killed.|group=nb
  • 1,375 killed (including Moro River battles)
clgo:combatant
  • Germany
  • Italy
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clgo:date
  • 1943-12-28
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clgo:place
clgo:result
  • Canadian victory
  • * Allied forces continue advance into theItalian Peninsula
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  • 1st Infantry Division
  • 1. Fallschirm-Jäger-Division
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