Word: anzio
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Dates: during 1944-1944
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Will Lang, veteran of Tunisia, of Salerno, of the Anzio beachhead, went in with the first wave of American infantry (at "a very tough spot," Osborne reported) . . . Reg Ingraham, our naval expert, covered the landings from a warship offshore, then pushed on to Toulon with General Patch's Seventh Army . . . Carl My dans came from Italy to join General de Lattre's fighters in the march on Marseilles (to the best of our knowledge, My dans was the only correspondent with the French forces) . . . and Photographer George Silk flew in from Italy in a British glider which tore...
...years in jail for failing to register as a German agent, and one of the 28 who were in the sedition trial at Washington, died on March 24 in Italy. Viereck, who disagreed violently with his father's views, had gone through some of the heaviest fighting on the Anzio beachhead...
...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...