Word: anzio
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Dates: during 1944-1944
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...Italy, the Nazis would have to divert supplies to them which might otherwise go to the invasion coast. Likewise, Kesselring must be prepared for amphibious landings in the north. (Berlin radio fran tically forecast that Allied troops were poised in Corsica and Sardinia for such a purpose.) In the Anzio sector, stiff Prussian Colonel General Eberhard von Mackensen planned to meet another Fifth Army attack on the Germans' flank...
Late in February a U.S. battalion in Italy made a gallant and determined stand against the Germans from a cave on the rocky road that runs north from Anzio. Cut off from supplies and fighting for a week without replacements, the battalion, in the words of New York Herald Tribune Correspondent Homer Bigart, "withstood the cruelest pressure any American unit has been called upon to face in this...
Immediately on reading the dispatch from Anzio, Corporal Viereck's mother sat down in her Manhattan apartment to write her son a letter of congratulations...
These were sufficient reasons to clinch slight, earnest Ernie Pyle's claim to the title of No. 1 war correspondent. But last week, as nearly every week, he provided another. Arriving in London from the Anzio beachhead, he gave his 11,500,000 readers a notable example of his warm, richly simple style...
From Femina Morta ("Dead Woman's Corner"), U.S. tanks and infantry on the Anzio front punched within two miles of the Appian Way. Along the whole beachhead front, attacks great & small flared up and died. The Allied forces were still stalled. But in the air, infantrymen saw some cheer...