(ANSA) – SAN CASCIANO VAL DI PESA (FLORENCE), 11 FEB – Artillery bombs removed this morning in San Casciano Val di Pesa (Florence), in different places in the area, by the bomb squads of the Army Engineers. A planned intervention took place in front of some houses at the exit of the town, in via Scopeti, inside a construction site for the installation of new public aqueduct pipes. The Cmd (Conventional Munition Disposal) nucleus of the Railway Engineers Regiment of Castel Maggiore (Bologna) has recovered a German 15 cm He (High Explosive) artillery grenade. The bomb was set off in the quarry.
However, again this morning in San Casciano in Val di Pesa, in the bed of the Suganella stream, in the open countryside and at a certain distance from the inhabited areas, following a report from a citizen during a walk, the engineers recovered the part ogival of a US-made artillery grenade, also from World War II. This device was also set off in a quarry. The hiker had noticed the ogive emerge from the ground and reported it.
In the summer of 1944 these places were crossed for days by an intense front line, with the retreat of the German army towards Florence and the Gothic Line, pursued by the allied troops who in this area, in Val di Pesa, had as vanguard New Zealand departments. Notable were the cannonades with field artillery during the movement of the line. According to the stories of New Zealand veterans, the Suganella stream was the scene of clashes, even very dramatic and close, with the German soldiers who covered the retreat to Florence up to the decisive and bloody battle of San Michele a Torri. (HANDLE).
Source: Ansa
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