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Podcast: Walk Among Heroes
Episode: Walk Among Heroes Podcast: Episode 16 - Crosby 'Bing' Powell (Battle of Monte Cassino, Italian Campaign)
Description: Walk Among Heroes is honored to welcome episode 16 guest, Crosby ‘Bing’ Powell, of Topeka, Kansas. Mr. Powell was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1943. He deployed to North Africa and arrived at the end of the fighting in Tunisia. He was assigned as a replacement in the 168th Regiment, 34th Infantry Division Red Bulls (the same exact regiment and division as Walk Among Heroes’ founder Jeff Wells’ grandfather). Mr. Powell landed in Italy in September 1944 and was part of the brutal Italian campaign. As the 34th Division attacked north, taking mountain-after-mountain from the Germans, the division suffered through brutal combat...