The town of Cisterna in Italy provided the theatre of the Battle of Cisterna in January 1944. Main street in Bastrop, Texas, a small town In American English, a town is usually a municipal corporation that is smaller than a city but larger than a village. ... Theater in military terms, is a geographic location used for military operations. ... The Battle of Cisterna took place during World War II, on January 29, 1944, near Cisterna , Italy, as part of Operation Shingle. ... 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ...
Cisterna was to be a coordinated attack with the other ground troops.
The infantry attack was halted short of Cisterna, where the 1st and 3d Rangers were surrounded, and the situation stabilized.
On that morning January 30 on the fringe of Cisterna; the 1st, and 3rd, Rangers were within 800 yards of the town; when they stumbled into a bivouac area of an entire German Motorized Infantry Division; supported by elements of German, Polish and Italian Paratroopers; and elements of Herman Goering's Panzer divisions.
CisternadiLatina (ZIP code 04012) belongs to the province of Latina and is 19 kilometers far from Latina, that is the Chief Town of the homonymous province.
CisternadiLatina has a population of 32.584 inhabitants (Cisternesi) and a surface of 142,8 square kilometers thus showing a population density of 228,18 inhabitants per square kilometer.
Population: The municipality of CisternadiLatina had a popolation of 31.463 inhabitants accordingly to the results of the national census made in 1991.
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