Word: anzio
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...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...