Word: anzio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Norstad, who got his third star at 40.) Later Clark wrung from Admiral Darlan the cease fire order to all French forces in North Africa. After serving as Eisenhower's second in command in North Africa, took command of the U.S. Fifth Army in Italy. Heavy casualties at Anzio, the Rapido River and Cassino brought him abuse from many of his men; Clark's answer could be summed up in the title of his war memoirs: Calculated Risk...
...Britain had a war or her hands: in the Caucasus against the Bolsheviks in 1919, in Palestine in 1935, at Dunkirk in 1940. In 1942 Gerald Templer became the youngest general in the British army, and probably the only one who was ever wounded by a grand piano. On Anzio Beach a truck loaded with loot ran into his jeep and dropped its biggest prize on the general's neck. The mishap put him in the hospital for weeks and out of active fighting for good, but Templer soon talked his way into other jobs just as suited...
...marine officer said the U.S. fire was heavier than at Iwo Jima. A 3rd Division officer called it an "Anzio in reverse"-meaning that the U.S. was handing out the punishment instead of taking it. In one 24-hour period, the combined land, sea and air forces claimed 2,600 Communist casualties. Apparently tired of such losses, the Chinese Communists sent regrouped North Koreans into the fighting, and by week's end the North Koreans were bearing the brunt of the battle...
...running fight of the marines and two battalions of the Army's 7th Infantry Division from Hagaru to Hamhung-40 miles by air but 60 miles over the icy, twisting, mountainous road-was a battle unparalleled in U.S. military history. It had some aspects of Bataan, some of Anzio, some of Dunkirk, some of Valley Forge, some of the "Retreat of the 10,000" (401-400 B.C.) as described in Xenophon's Anabasis. The retreat of the 20,000 in Korea would not have been possible without General Tunner's ultramodern airlift, which supplied them with...
...Clark defends his order of the bloody and abortive attack by the 36th Division across the Rapido below Cassino. It was necessary to draw German defenders away from the projected Anzio landing. The casualties were not 2,900, as the indignant 36th claimed, but 1,681. "If I am to be accused of something, thank God I am accused of attacking instead of retreating...