World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF ITALY: Bury Them Together

In a letter from the Italian front to his wife in London, the Daily Mail's Correspondent Noel Monks wrote:

"I wish you could see the Tommies and the Yanks fighting side by side in the hills here, each unit depending on the other for the upholding of a flank. The last time I was up at the front, four days ago, I saw a little pile of dead by the roadside, six Tommies, four Yanks. There was an argument as to whether they should be buried together or apart. A U.S. colonel settled the thing with 'Hell, bury them together....

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