Bob Dole and the Nazis’ Brutal Last Stand in Italy

Allied soldiers struggled for months to clear veteran German troops dug into the mountains of northern Italy in late 1944 and early 1945.

Edwin S. Grosvenor

Summer 2022, Volume 67, Issue3

Robert Dole was only 20 when he enrolled during WWII and was assigned to the 10th Mountain Division.

Only 20 years old when he enrolled during WWII, Dole was assigned to the elite 10th Mountain Division.

Editor’s Note: The late Sen. Robert Dole and nearly one million other Allied soldiers continued the fight against Nazi Germany in northern Italy after D-Day in 1944, when the world’s attention turned to France. A team from American Heritage recently traveled to Italy to find the spot where Dole was so badly wounded, and learn more about this dramatic but often-neglected phase of World War II. We thank Gabriele Ronchetti, author of several books on the Italian campaign, and the other historians of the Gothic Line Association for their help in the research for this article.

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