Word: anzio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germans had thrown the Allies back in the sea at Anzio, said Ike, "it would have been a very, very sad thing . . . [but] I never considered it, because I do not ever let my mind think upon it that...
...June 18). He had studied the possibility of an amphibious "end run" around the Japanese lines, to the southern beaches. The idea had been rejected because the reefs and beaches would have made it impossible to supply a large enough force. Such a landing "could have turned into another Anzio beachhead, or worse," declared Buckner. At his advance headquarters on Guam, Fleet Admiral Nimitz endorsed Buckner's decisions without qualification...
...jeep named "Jeanie" he covered the fronts, commuting between Cassino and the Anzio beachhead, making his left-handed sketches with India ink, which he got from the engineers, and three carefully guarded worn-out brushes...
...were the men Sergeant Bill Mauldin, himself a 45th Division soldier, drew in his cartoons-unshaven, unkempt, unbeatable. They were pulled out of the line only after they had cleared the approaches to Cassino, given a few days rest. Then they were sent into the smoky, battered beachhead at Anzio. A headquarters commandant grimly noted: "In the last months I have seen six battalion commanders come...
...Armored landed at Oran, rumbled through to Tunisia. At Sidi bou Zid it was thrown back on its wheels. It recovered and under Major General Ernest ("Hardboiled") Harmon drove through Macknassy and opened the way into Bizerte. Later the ist fought at Cassino. It Janded at Anzio, aided the breakout, fought a savage engagement in the area of Cisterna and Campo Leone. First to cross the Tiber, it marched into Rome with the fresh man 88th, the 88th and the redhot ist Special Service Force. After that their style was cramped in the battering, constricted Italian campaign...