Word: anzio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...roads while German shells slammed blindly through their protecting smoke screen. Planes and barrages smote the Monte Cassino Abbey positions, but when infantrymen tried to press forward the Germans were still dug in on the mountain and pouring back murderous patterns of machine-gun fire. As at Anzio, the best the Allies could claim was stalemate...
Nero's buried villa at Anzio was explored in jigtime last week. U.S. Army officers had heard that the Emperor had built an aqueduct from his Anzio villa to Rome, 30 miles away. It might be a way to get behind the German lines...
...winner came from three months in Italy as an ammunition carrier with a heavy-weapons company. After the fight he was sent immediately to the Anzio beachhead. With him went the gold belt for the amateur heavyweight class...
...Anzio beachhead last week the U.S. and Allied press won a minor counterattack but they were losing a major battle against brass-buttoned censorship. The Army had served notice that it could make correspondents hew to the official line of what is good and what is bad battle news...
Brass Hats. The Anzio press corps fought an extraordinarily hot engagement (punctuated by a bombing alert) against General Sir Harold R.L.G. Alexander, who accused the correspondents of "blowing hot and cold" in their reports of the month-long beachhead battle. The doughty commander of Allied armies in Italy charged the newsmen with "alarming the people" by switching from overoptimism to overpessimism, was "very disappointed that you should put out such rot." Day before, as a penalty for "such rot," his staff had cut the correspondents' use of the beachhead's radio to Naples, by which the Allied press...