Word: 12th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this week complete tactical success was in sight. Given a day or two of clear skies, Brigadier General Gordon P. Saville's 12th Tactical Air Command could get in its licks at the Rhine bridges, perhaps complete the local pattern of encirclement...
Another division was mustered. It lined up but broke ranks before marching a step. A third division arrived in busses. All but eight of them refused to work. In all, 277 men, all Negroes, refused duty. Finally Rear Admiral Carleton H. Wright, commandant of the 12th Naval District, hurried to the depot and made a stern but fatherly speech. Even then 50 held out-the 50 on trial this week...
...U.S.British-Canadian Court of Inquiry. Details were meager and evidence undisclosed. But it was known that the murders had occurred at Pavie, on the Caen-Bayeux highway, two days after Dday. Thirteen of the victims had been machine-gunned in a group. The Germans responsible were "members of the 12th SS Reconnaissance Battalion of the 12th SS Panzer Division." (The SS murderers, reported Canadian Pressman Ross Munro, had been Hitler Jugend-most of them less than 20 years...
...that some priceless architectural monuments had already been wiped out or ruined. But in view of the ferocity of the Italian campaign, the damage was remarkably small. Few irreplaceable buildings were destroyed in Apulia or Calabria. Farther north the destruction was greater. Among the monuments completely demolished were: the 12th-Century cathedral at Benevento; Naples' Santa Chiara Church-the finest Gothic church in the city; the Church of the Incoronata, at Naples, which contained frescoes of the Sienese School...
Intact were the Cascades at Caserta, a famed waterway lined with baroque sculpture; the Castel del Monte, near Bari (depository for all the art treasures of the Bari area); the 12th-Century cathedral at Bari...