Cassino as appear today. The modern town was completely rebuilt at the foot of the Monastery Hill deleting the facto all the sign of the battle. This picture is also an answer to exactly Larry41’s question. Best regards Victor Sierra

Cassino today

After the war the u.s had a variety of captuerd weapons. The u.s was looking for a new machine gun so the u.s used the body of FG42 and a belt link of the MG42 . the caliber of the T44 was a .30-06 caliber the production of the gun would discontinue. The T44 project would later become into the foundation of the M60 light machine gun 

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