Word: anzio
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...action started out as another ridge-and-river crossing by the victorious Fifth Army as it drove up the length of Italy. An optimistic intelligence summary said that German power was "ebbing." The attack was to be timed with the Anzio landing, 60 miles behind the German front at Cassino, trapping the Germans between two fires. Instead, it was the Allies who were trapped. This book ably retells the story of the trap and of what it took to pry it open again-in one of the great battles of World...
Your June 4 issue carries a story concerning the hassle started when Harry Truman criticized the military operations at Salerno and Anzio. General Eisenhower is credited by Harry Butcher in his book, My Three Years with Eisenhower, with telling George Allen that there are only two professions in the world in which the amateur excels the professional. One, military strategy, and two, prostitution...
...Truman party packed bags, pressed crisp new U.S. bills into the porter's hands, and prepared to motor north to Assisi, Venice and Florence, correspondents cornered him a final time on Salerno and Anzio, got him to admit: "After the fact, a man can always find a better way. The objective was won and that's what counts. I didn't come over here to criticize anybody." So saying, Harry Truman, happy tourist, climbed into his Fiat and roared toward new wonders...
...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...