Babe Ciarlo's Letters Home From Anzio
On the Anzio front, Waterbury's Babe Ciarlo wrote home about pork chops, never the fighting.
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Babe Ciarlo's Letters Home From Anzio
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On the Anzio front, Waterbury's Babe Ciarlo wrote home about pork chops, never the fighting.
Some 7,000 Allied personnel were killed at Anzio, and tens of thousands more were wounded, missing or felled by frostbite, trench foot and shell shock. On the front line with the 3rd Infantry Division, Babe Ciarlo of Waterbury, Connecticut, saw all of it. His letters home spoke only of good weather, chow lines and Mother's Day flowers.
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Babe Ciarlo's Letters Home From Anzio
Clip: Episode 3 | 5m 52sVideo has Closed Captions
Some 7,000 Allied personnel were killed at Anzio, and tens of thousands more were wounded, missing or felled by frostbite, trench foot and shell shock. On the front line with the 3rd Infantry Division, Babe Ciarlo of Waterbury, Connecticut, saw all of it. His letters home spoke only of good weather, chow lines and Mother's Day flowers.
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