![]() ![]() Their specialty is, of course, working with Hollywood producers to create action film battle scenes. The pyrotechnics and blank ammunition from actual weapons was provided by the Movie Armament Group out of Toronto. But the progress the Ontario Regiment’s sacrifice made that day paved the way for eventual Allied success in Italy.Ī battle re-enactment of Aquino was staged on both days of the weekend event, with the museum’s collection of operational Second World War-era Allied tanks and armoured vehicles engaged by a horde of German uniformed re-enactors with an anti-tank cannon. With their vehicles crippled, members of the regiment withdrew. ![]() The Germans, attacking from three sides, struck every tank at least once, and 13 Ontario Regiment tanks were totally destroyed by the Nazis. When the advance was stalled, the Ontario Regiment was ordered to hold its position. The battle began on and pitted the Ontario Regiment against firmly entrenched German forces intent on preventing the Allied push towards Rome. The battle was unique in that it saw the armoured regiment fighting German defences alone, without either artillery or infantry support. ![]() The title of the show is tribute to the Ontario Regiment’s disastrous involvement in the 1944 Battle of Aquino, a key engagement in the Allied effort to break through the so-called Hitler Line south of Rome. ![]() The Ontario Regiment Museum hosts Canada's largest annual military show and, this year, Esprit de Corps publisher Scott Taylor and senior writer David Pugliese were invited to attend as special guests at the two-day event.Īquino Weekend was held on May 27–28, 2017 and attracted more than 8,000 excited history buffs to the museum site at the Oshawa Executive Airport. ![]()
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