Word: anzio
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Dates: during 1944-1944
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...Anzio: the Pawns. The little town leaned down to the harbor in a frozen cascade of wreckage. German shells still battered it and geysered around busy harbor craft shuttling between ships and shore. Soldiers lived in holes in the ground, making the best of a poor situation. Items...
...step was recognized: the Anzio Amble, a shuffling, crouching gait while hugging the walls on the lee side of German artillery bursts...
...gallons of G.I. beer, brewed in Naples, arrived in Anzio...
Grenadier Major William Sidney, son-in-law of Malta's Governor, Field Marshal the Viscount Gort, received the Victoria Cross "for superb courage and utter disregard of danger ... on the Anzio beachhead...
...Army Signal Corps brought one of the U.S. fighting fronts straight into millions of comfortable American living rooms this week. From beleaguered Anzio, Station JJRP (Jig Jig Roger Peter in Army lingo), "the toughest little radio station in the world," was relayed by RCAC to the U.S., where the four major networks rebroadcast its program. It was the first time a broadcasting station had been erected and put into continuous operation so close to the front lines...