Word: artena
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...Artena, the citizens put on their shabby Sunday best despite the rain and solemnly went to the polls. In the middle of the main street, painted in huge letters on the rough pavement, was the message: "Vote for the American Republic-Viva VAmerica." A peasant swung his oxcart violently to one side. Said he: "We don't want these wheels going over those words." The wheels of his cart had been salvaged from a German gun carriage...
Bloody also was the fight for Artena, which was desperately defended by rear guard German machine gunners firing from houses, woods and ditches. But Artena fell...
...fall severed the Nazis' lateral communication between Valmontone and Velletri, their two main strongholds in front of the Alban Hills. From Artena, the Fifth Army's big guns shelled Valmontone and adjacent stretches of Via Casilina. So the main escape route to Rome of General von Flietinghoff's Tenth Army remnants, dropping back from Cassino, became a road of dire peril...
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