Word: anzio
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Dates: during 1944-1944
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Footballer. Captain Maurice L. ("Footsy") Britt, aged 24, of Lonoke, Ark., played football at the University of Arkansas, later was an end for the Detroit Lions. Last week he was in Lawson General Hospital, Atlanta, recuperating from the loss of his right arm, shot off at Anzio two months ago. His medal was won in another Italian action last November. Despite many wounds in his side, chest, face and hands, Footsy Britt advanced with eight men, personally killed five Germans, wiped out a machine-gun nest, fired five clips (75 rounds) of carbine ammunition, more rifle ammunition, threw 32 grenades...
More Men? Now the fact seems clear that in the original landing at Anzio too few troops were employed for the depth of penetration necessary to make this flanking move a success...
...month-old story, finally released by the censor last week, suggested how much the Allies tried to do at Anzio with how little. The story, by the Montreal Star's Sholto Watt, described the exploits of a unique unit of mixed Canadian and U.S. troops, known unfavorably to the Germans as the men "with funny pants and dirty faces...
...weeks," wrote Watt, "they held a phenomenally long stretch of Anzio beachhead . . . several times more than would normally be allotted to a corresponding number of infantry...
...Germans, perhaps fishing for information, last week reported that Allied strength was being shifted to the Anzio beachhead. The Anzio beachhead would be much harder to exploit now than it would have been last January, but the German suggestion nonetheless made more than passable sense...