Word: anzio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...merchant navy, the Royal Marines (he was twice torpedoed off the Dutch coast), the Irish Guards (wounded three times at Anzio...
Citation: "His brilliant leapfrogging military tactics, so successfully imitated in the Korean War, enabled his legions to overcome a stubborn foe in treacherous battles the length of Italy. His was the burden and his the honor of Sicily, Anzio, Nettuno and Rome...
SICILY-SALERNO-ANZIO, by Samuel Eliot Morison, could hardly have been pleasant reading for the Allied commanders of World War II. This ninth volume of Morison's history of the naval side of the war (five more to come) criticized Montgomery for his handling of the Sicilian campaign, claimed the Italian surrender was fluffed, and flatly denounced the Anzio invasion as a "mistake...
SICILY-SALERNO-ANZIO (413 pp.)-Samuel Eliot Morison-Little, Brown...
...water man, Morison dishes out most of his criticism to the other services. He pans Army brass for not pushing through plans to seize Rome by air after Mussolini's fall; had they done so, he says, the slogging campaign up southern Italy would not have been needed. Anzio, he thinks, was a blunder. But in general, says Morison, the Italian campaign was worth it all-unpopular like Grant's Wilderness campaign of 1864, but equally a campaign that had to be fought. Its bloody cost was more than repaid in Normandy's victories weeks later...