Word: anzio
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Dates: during 1944-1944
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...German troops below Rome the ill wind was a blessing, completely canceling out superior Allied air power, offering a priceless opportunity to crack the beleaguered Fifth Army beachhead on Cape Anzio...
...long as that battle was stalemated, no decisive result could be reached at Anzio (except for the dire possibility of a German victory). From the first, the beachhead landing had been planned not as an independent thrust at Rome (the available force-six divisions-was not adequate for such a task) but as a bold flanking attack calculated to make the Germans pull back hastily from their positions along the so-called Gustav Line...
...that, too, was an indirect gain for the Allies. The German who fights at Anzio is not available for Russia or for western France. And for Germany, at this stage of the war, the soldier who dies at Anzio cannot be replaced...