Word: anzio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Anzio: the Pawns. The little town leaned down to the harbor in a frozen cascade of wreckage. German shells still battered it and geysered around busy harbor craft shuttling between ships and shore. Soldiers lived in holes in the ground, making the best of a poor situation. Items...
...step was recognized: the Anzio Amble, a shuffling, crouching gait while hugging the walls on the lee side of German artillery bursts...
...gallons of G.I. beer, brewed in Naples, arrived in Anzio...
Grenadier Major William Sidney, son-in-law of Malta's Governor, Field Marshal the Viscount Gort, received the Victoria Cross "for superb courage and utter disregard of danger ... on the Anzio beachhead...
Footballer. Captain Maurice L. ("Footsy") Britt, aged 24, of Lonoke, Ark., played football at the University of Arkansas, later was an end for the Detroit Lions. Last week he was in Lawson General Hospital, Atlanta, recuperating from the loss of his right arm, shot off at Anzio two months ago. His medal was won in another Italian action last November. Despite many wounds in his side, chest, face and hands, Footsy Britt advanced with eight men, personally killed five Germans, wiped out a machine-gun nest, fired five clips (75 rounds) of carbine ammunition, more rifle ammunition, threw 32 grenades...