1944: Twelfth Air Force sends 254 B-17 and B-25 bombers to attack and destroy the Abbey of Monte Cassino, Italy. The US Fifth Army took the ruins on 18 May, allowing the US Fifth and British Eighth Armies to advance on Rome.
1944: Twelfth Air Force sends 254 B-17 and B-25 bombers to attack and destroy the Abbey of Monte Cassino, Italy. The US Fifth Army took the ruins on 18 May, allowing the US Fifth and British Eighth Armies to advance on Rome.