Word: anzio
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Dates: during 1944-1944
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...gets a false sense of security. Hearing none of the usual din of battle, he comes jeeping along, admiring the scenery, when-ping-a sniper's bullet shatters his daydreams. . . . Japanese bullets and knee mortars can kill just as surely as von Mackensen's railway guns at Anzio...
...Admiral Hewitt & Co. who have by no means gone unmentioned in TIME (July 26, 1943), rate a 15-gun salute for good work in five tough amphibious operations: the landings in Africa, Sicily, at Salerno, Anzio, Southern France. Possessor of one of the U.S. Navy's most brilliant mathematical minds, Admiral Hewitt is one of the prime organizers of U.S. amphibious warfare...
...Mountbatten, looking fit and showing no trace of an eye injury received in the jungle last spring, told at last why operations in his command had been so maddeningly slow: landing craft allocated to him after the Quebec Conference had been sent instead to the Mediterranean, for landings at Anzio and on the Riviera. Result: he and General "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell (who now sports his full general's four stars for the first time) had had to cut their campaign suit from a remnant...
Last winter the Force turned up in Italy; along the road to Cassino they captured peak after mountain peak. Then they moved to the Anzio beachhead. There for 99 nights they painted their faces black and roamed through the German positions. The diary of a dead German paid them their most cherished tribute: "The black devils are all around us every time we come into the line and we never hear them come...
Married. Pfc. Alton W. Knappen-berger, 20, Nazi-slaying "one man army of Anzio"; and Ruth Eickhoff, 16, his home town sweetheart; in Red Hill, Pa. The Congressional Medal of Honor winner was told to "speak up" when applying for the license, later delayed the marriage ceremony by forgetting the document, had to run back...