Word: anzio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fellow newsman three months ago. Like many correspondents, and more than most, he had certainly used up chances. He had covered London in the blitz, slugged across North Africa, landed with the troops in Sicily. He had been bombed, slightly wounded and awarded the Purple Heart at Anzio. He had gone into Normandy on D + 1 and later watched in horror as Lieut. General Lesley J. McNair and other Americans were killed by their own planes at Saint...
This week the Remagen bridgehead area had grown to 144 square miles. As the beachhead at Anzio had been, Remagen was a pistol jabbed into the Nazi flank. Also like Anzio, the breakout would probably be timed with attacks elsewhere...
...Army Girl. The lustrous-limbed Dietrich has played the European circuit longer than any other star, has heard every kind of enemy fire except snipers' bullets. She flew to the Mediterranean last March, shoved across Africa, wheedled her way to Anzio, rattled into Rome two days after it fell. In August she was off again, hopping around Labrador, Greenland, Iceland, getting lost in fogs, doing four-a-days in England. In October she reached France. Last week she was singing in hospitals near Paris; this week she was off to tour the Ninth Army...
...proof that we cannot afford to leave Italy's domestic affairs entirely to Italy, the dead, of Anzio give mute testimony. Several million fighting Americans around the world are proof that isolation is not only impractical but impossible. ... It is essential that the Allies make every effort to stabilize a world gone mad with war and hate...
...gets a false sense of security. Hearing none of the usual din of battle, he comes jeeping along, admiring the scenery, when-ping-a sniper's bullet shatters his daydreams. . . . Japanese bullets and knee mortars can kill just as surely as von Mackensen's railway guns at Anzio...