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...Allied offensive in Italy rolled up toward the next phase of the campaign. Within 24 hours two of the best ports in northern Italy-Leghorn and Ancona-were captured. Five days later the Allies were at the Arno River, had fought in the streets of Pisa, stood only twelve miles from Florence. Only these two cities remained before the last grand assault of the Battle of Italy could be begun-the attack on the German Gothic Line in the high Appenines...
...slow fight through northern Italy began to speed up again. Both the Fifth and Eighth Armies made their most rapid advances in weeks, passed Arezzo in the center, on the west drew close to the German Arno River line, outpost of the Gothic mountain line where the Germans hope to stand and hold...
...important advance in ten days; by week's end its guns were shelling the city from four-mile range. At the same time vanguard troops, which included the 100th Battalion of tough, American-born Japanese, pried further through the hills, only six and a half miles from the Arno...
...center the Eighth Army broke a three-week deadlock by bursting through four German divisions to capture the high way hub of Arezzo, controlling German lateral communications, then tooled on across the Arno...
...Allied strategists saw it, the Germans would fall back to the Arno River as soon as they lost two seaports-Leghorn on the west coast, Ancona on the east. Once the river was passed in their delaying action, the Germans would drop back another 20 miles to the fortified Gothic Line...