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Two monks in dark robes stand among the rubble and broken stairs of the bombed Monte Cassino monastery in Italy, with a headless statue in the center foreground.
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World War II [1944]
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Italian Campaign, World War II
Monks searching the rubble of the Benedictine abbey at Monte Cassino in Cassino,...
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