10th Mountain Division Monument- Monte Terminale
Details:
At the end of trail 442 on the peak of Monte Terminale. Monument
The memorial is a brass inscribed plaque attached to a boulder.
The monument remembers the 86th Infantry Regiment, 10th Mountain Division conquest of Monte Terminale in March 1945.
From the Montese Linea Gotica Museum website:
Mount Terminale (1,008 m asl.) overlooking the village of Iola, was fortified by the Germans of the 232nd Infantry Division from the summer of 1944 as part of the defensive structures of the last retreat of the Gothic Line (Green Line II). On the morning of March 3, 1945, after a fierce battle with strokes of machine gun and mortars, the mountain was conquered by the men of the 2nd Battalion, 86th Infantry Regiment of the American 10th Mountain Division.
Monument Text:
The text on the plaque is written in Italian and English. The English reads:
-SYMBOL OF THE 10th MOUNTAIN DIVISION-
MONTE TERMINALE
Linea Gotica 1944-1945
In honor of the soldiers of the U.S. 10th Mountain
Division and all those who fought in these mountains
And have sacrificed their lives for our freedom of our Homeland.
The Community and the Cultural Group- Il Trebbo Remember
Iola di Montese 22 June 2015
