Word: anzio
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...stone houses and strong points, U.S. 8-in. and 240-mm. howitzers are now being used because of their greater penetrating and greater blasting power. (The first pictures of 2403 being used in Italy were released this week.) But apparently the big fellows are not available on the Anzio beachhead...
There the German 170-mm. rifle shoots right across to the beach. (Troops on the beachhead call it the "Anzio Express" because they can hear the scream of its shells passing, hear the report of the gun from the enemy lines, hear the explosion on the shore behind them.) Sometimes the troops see the German guns firing, call on their 105s for counterbattery fire, only to see the U.S. bursts fall far short at maxi mum range. Even 155s sneaked to for ward positions at night have not succeeded in reaching the Germans...
More Men? Now the fact seems clear that in the original landing at Anzio too few troops were employed for the depth of penetration necessary to make this flanking move a success...
...month-old story, finally released by the censor last week, suggested how much the Allies tried to do at Anzio with how little. The story, by the Montreal Star's Sholto Watt, described the exploits of a unique unit of mixed Canadian and U.S. troops, known unfavorably to the Germans as the men "with funny pants and dirty faces...
...weeks," wrote Watt, "they held a phenomenally long stretch of Anzio beachhead . . . several times more than would normally be allotted to a corresponding number of infantry...