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The War
Babe Ciarlo's Letters Home From Anzio
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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