THE TERRIBLE STORY OF LAVERNE PARRISH OF RONAN, A TECHNICIAN FOURTH GRADE IN THE U.S. ARMY, HE MUST BE HONORED

 Laverne Parrish of Ronan, Montana, a Technician Fourth Grade in the U.S. Army, was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroic actions on January 18 and 24, 1945, in Luzon, Philippines.


Parrish joined the Army in March 1941, and by January 18, 1945, was serving as a technician fourth grade in the Medical Detachment of the 161st Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division.

 On January 18, 1945, at Binalonan on the island of Luzon in the Philippines, he exposed himself to enemy fire to aid two wounded soldiers. Six days later,  on January 24, near San Manuel, Parrish again braved hostile fire to tend to the wounded, carrying five men to safety and treating dozens more before being mortally wounded. He was just 26 years old.

He was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions on Janaury 18 and 24, 1945. He is buried in Mountain View Cemetery, Ronan, Montana.

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The Battle of Monte Cassino was  a costly series of four assaults by the Allies against the "Winter Line" in Italy held by Axis forces during the Italian Campaign of World War II.


The 123-day Battle of Monte Cassino, from January 17 – May 18, 1944, was one of the longest and bloodiest engagements of the Italian campaign as the Allies aimed to breakthrough to Rome.

At the beginning of 1944, the western half of the Winter Line was being anchored by Germans holding the Rapido-Gari, Liri and Garigliano valleys and some of the surrounding peaks and ridges. 

Together, these features formed the Gustav Line. Monte Cassino, a historic hilltop Roman Catholic abbey, dominated the nearby town of Cassino and the entrances to the Liri and Rapido valleys. Lying in a protected historic zone, the Germans left it unoccupied, although they manned some positions set into the steep slopes below the abbey's walls.

Repeated pinpoint artillery attacks on Allied assault troops caused their leaders to conclude the Germans were using the abbey as an observation post. Fears escalated along with casualties, and the abbey was marked for destruction.

Between January 17th and May 18th, Monte Cassino and the Gustav defenses were assaulted four times by Allied troops, the last involving twenty divisions attacking along a twenty-mile front. The German defenders were finally driven from their positions, and the Gustav Line finally collapsed when the Second Polish Corps captured the abbey.

But, the cost was high. The capture of Monte Cassino resulted in 55,000 Allied casualties.

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