Mount Scalpello Explained
Mount Scalpello (Italian: Monte Scalpello) is a 583m (1,913feet) hill in central eastern Sicily, Italy.[1] The hill is mostly known for Triassic and Neolithic remains being found in 1997[2] and there it is mostly linked with Canadian campaign of WW2 in Italy[3] where a mule path south of the hill was the location of multiple CYR advances[4] during night operations.[5] [6] After which two companies held the hill against constant German mortar and artillery.[7]
Notes and References
- Crasquin . Sylvie . Sciuto . Francesco . Reitano . Agatino . 2018-04-01 . Late Carnian (Tuvalian, Tropites dilleri zone) ostracods (Crustacea) from the Mufara Formation (Monte Scalpello, Central-Eastern Sicily, Italy) . Annales de Paléontologie . en . 104 . 2 . 129–142 . 10.1016/j.annpal.2018.03.001 . 2018AnPal.104..129C . 133846307 . 0753-3969.
- Web site: Monte Scalpello - Sqallija fuq in-Net . 2022-11-22 . Sicilia in Rete . mt.
- Stieva . Katelyn . 2016 . MAKING IT UP AS YOU GO: RACIAL POLICY IN THE CANADIAN MILITARY DURING THE TWO WORLD WARS . . 47.
- Book: Tooley, Robert William . Invicta : the Carleton and York regiment in the Second World War . 1990 . National Library of Canada . 0-315-51850-2 . 23651029.
- Book: Staff, Canada Department of National Defence General . Official History of the Canadian Army in the Second World War: The Canadians in Italy, 1943-1945, by G. W. L. Nicholson . 1966 . R. Duhamel, Queen's Printer . en.
- Book: Staff . Canada Department of National Defence General . Official History of the Canadian Army in the Second World War ...: The Canadians in Italy, 1943-1945, by G.W.L. Nicholson . Stacey . Charles Perry . 1956 . Cloutier . en.
- Book: Scot Daniell . David . The Royal Hampshire Regiment . Atkinson . Cristopher Thomas . Regiment, 1950 . 1950 . 133 . en.
