John Frost
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10 recordings
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first heard Jul 2026
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John Frost’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And because Italy is long and thin and narrow, and the mountains run down the spine of it, the rivers are always coming out sideways at 90 degrees to the advanced.
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Advancing allies.
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So they've got across endless amounts of rivers.
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And of course, as the Germans are retreating, they're blowing up all the bridges, making life as difficult as possible, and blowing up roads and mountain passes and all the rest of it.
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So they're having to contend with this as well.
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And by the kind of sort of middle of November, they've managed to get through a load of them.
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They've got over the river Baferno.
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They've got it.
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This is eighth army, by the way, still under Montgomery at this stage.
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They've got over the Trino.
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And now they're coming up to the river Sangro, which is no small obstacle at all, and is also the line behind which lies the Bernhard line.
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And for those of us who remember all the casino episodes we did, you may remember the Bernhard line and then the Gustav line, which are two very close together, really solid, strong defensive positions through a sort of pass through the through the mountains.
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Well, the Bernhard line goes.
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All the way across as does the Gustav line.
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And the Bernhard line sort of and the Gustav line sort of meet halfway across the leg.
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So the Bernhard line stroke Gustav line is one and the same thing.
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And the main defensive positions of the Bernhard Stroke Gustav line are
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Are the other side of
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the river sangro.
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Tivre.
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