Word: anzio
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Dates: during 1944-1944
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...There was the old story of too little and too late at Anzio, with the result that, although the landing was a surprise, which is always possible through naval support, the troops, instead of moving or being able to move to cut the Via Casilina, the sup ply line of the German forces at Cassino began consolidation of the beachhead, where they are besieged...
...stone houses and strong points, U.S. 8-in. and 240-mm. howitzers are now being used because of their greater penetrating and greater blasting power. (The first pictures of 2403 being used in Italy were released this week.) But apparently the big fellows are not available on the Anzio beachhead...
There the German 170-mm. rifle shoots right across to the beach. (Troops on the beachhead call it the "Anzio Express" because they can hear the scream of its shells passing, hear the report of the gun from the enemy lines, hear the explosion on the shore behind them.) Sometimes the troops see the German guns firing, call on their 105s for counterbattery fire, only to see the U.S. bursts fall far short at maxi mum range. Even 155s sneaked to for ward positions at night have not succeeded in reaching the Germans...
...London last week the British Admiralty announced the loss of one of the crack warships of World War II, the 5,270-ton light cruiser Penelope. She was sunk with another cruiser and two destroyers off Anzio...
...secrets, with their lenses mapping Italy from the toe up. One of his pilots made six low-level missions through enemy ack-ack around Mt. Cairo, finally got the pictures the Allied commanders needed before they began their attack. Pop himself did much of the photo work on the Anzio beachhead...