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Private Reg Minter's first real time in action was at Cassino in March 1944. Here he remembers that time
The Division was to enjoy only a brief respite before being called upon to participate in a new attack on a strong point which would prove the most tragically elusive prize of the entire campaign for the New Zealanders.
A New Zealander in the ruins of Cassino signals to a tank in another part of the town