Word: alessandria
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Audisio's career began in the dirty northern industrial town of Alessandria, where he grew up in a squalor he swore to escape. He rose to the top of his class in school, got a job making Borsalino hats (which are to Stetsons what Isotta Fraschinis are to Oldsmobiles); during the depression he lived squalidly in a tiny apartment with his wife, a seamstress. He was arrested for Communist agitation and when he got out of jail after five years, things were even worse ("We lived on boiled milk and boiled potatoes...
...Plan. On July 12 Operation Mallory Major began to work. Mitchells and Marauders called at the bridges along some 200 miles of river from the Adriatic to Alessandria, cut them down with pinpoint bombing. The Germans were caught with their flak and fighters down, watched their bridges crumple into...
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