Word: artena
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Dates: during 1944-1944
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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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