Word: anzio
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...Alton W. Knappenberger, 20 years old, 120 lbs., who knocked off 60 Nazis on the Anzio beachhead, arrived practically broke in his home town, Spring Mount, Pa. Explained the Congressional medalist: "I saved up $150. .. . Then while I was in Naples a pickpocket took it all. The people there are pretty hard...
...years go by. With me it seems to have had a cumulative effect. I am much more afraid of a plane overhead now than I was during the London blitz, or even during our early dive-bombing days in Africa. With those four narrow squeaks at Anzio [where a bomb blew in two walls of a room where he was sleeping] coming after a year and a half of sporadic squeaks, I have begun to feel I have about used up my chances...
...World War II equivalent of the homemade crystal set (circa 1920) with its galena rock and cat's whisker, turned up in force on the Anzio Beachhead. One of hundreds of U.S. infantrymen who made foxhole receivers to kill time and boredom at Anzio, Lieut. M. L. Rupert, sent a diagram and description of the set to the Marlin Firearms Co. (razor blades, etc.). Wrote...
...said Souza, "you've made it." Thus the Anzio beachhead passed into history, after four months of toil, tribulation and terror. The beachhead front and the Cassino front at last were one, and this was high drama for home-front folks leaping at headlines. The Allied offensive in Italy formed the southern prong of the promised triple attack on Hitler's heartland. With things going so well in the south, D-day in the west and the pounce of the Russian giant could not be far behind...
Corporal J. F. Brennan and Pfc. Stan Sill ran into the spider web. When they got home to the Anzio beachhead, they were still mad enough to write a letter to the editor - in this case, the editor of the Stars and Stripes...