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...from Terracina along the coastal road, accompanied by a private. When they came to a wrecked bridge near Borgo Grappa, they got out and started to walk, escorted by a flock of politely curious Italians on bicycles. At 7:31 Buckley met a force moving south from the Anzio beachhead - Captain Benjamin Harrison Souza of Honolulu and his platoon of engineers. The captain and lieutenant stared at each other...
...said Souza, "you've made it." Thus the Anzio beachhead passed into history, after four months of toil, tribulation and terror. The beachhead front and the Cassino front at last were one, and this was high drama for home-front folks leaping at headlines. The Allied offensive in Italy formed the southern prong of the promised triple attack on Hitler's heartland. With things going so well in the south, D-day in the west and the pounce of the Russian giant could not be far behind...
...enemy has been forced to fight on an extended front . . . continually engaged . . . while our regroupment was in progress. . . . Because of the position of the Allied beachhead force, the enemy couldn't know where our next blow would fall. . . . [Allied troops] have been fully conscious of the role they have played...
...much-discussed beachhead operation emerged from the murky half-light of second-guessing which has befogged it for months. No doubt, it had been a nightmare. Thousands of soldiers were jammed into an area of 90 square miles, nearly every foot of which lay open to enemy bombs and shells. With surprising agility, Kesselring had moved up five divisions to contain the landing forces. The weather was bad. Most of the time the ground was too wet for tanks to maneuver efficiently. Begun after Alexander had taken over from General Eisenhower, it had become one of the most rugged Anglo...
Would Alexander try to by-pass and encircle Rome, or attack it directly? What was to prevent him from staging another beachhead operation north of the city? Would he develop another flanking movement far to the east, at Pescara on the Adriatic...