Word: anzio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Anzio, "we counted [on] the belief of the Air Force that it could 'isolate' the beachhead area ... I might as well say right here that this didn't work . . . Throughout the Italian campaign, I saw this isolation theory tried out again and again, and repeatedly the enemy moved his forces by railroad and by highway, with some difficulty to be sure, but with a great deal of effectiveness...
...Last week the famed 3rd U.S. Infantry Division, under Major General Robert H. Soule, arrived in the Korean theater. In World War II, it made four amphibious landings (North Africa, Sicily, Anzio, France), took more casualties (34,224) than any other infantry division, was one of the war's most decorated outfits...
There was little doubt that the final U.N. beachhead in Korea would be smaller than last week's 140-mile defense perimeter. But U.S. troops have held small beachheads before. In 1944, at Anzio, 62,000 U.S. troops crowded onto a beachhead 18 miles wide and 13 miles deep, held it until they had massed enough strength for a breakthrough...
This week the U.S. had reason to hope that the Battle of Korea would be another Anzio or Salerno-not another Dunkerque or Bataan...
Fitted with a mask of wax, Saint Maria's skeleton had been brought to Rome for public veneration from her home town of Nettuno, near the Anzio beachhead of World War II. The ceremony had to be moved out of the basilica into St. Peter's Square because of the great crowds-estimated by the Vatican radio at 500,000. Pope Pius XII, robed in scarlet in honor of Maria's martyrdom and wearing the triregnum, his three-tiered crown, spoke from a portable throne to a throng that stretched before him for a quarter...