Word: bolognas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Italy, the heaviest Allied offensive of 1945 won Bologna, the great German bolt position guarding the Poplain (see below). There now seemed no hope for the Nazis to hold anywhere short of the Alps...
...gathered about the map tables at German supreme headquarters the reports must have been coming in like hammer blows to the heart. Now their Italian line collapsed. Two of their last, best armies, driven from the Apennines, were scurrying northward toward the Po River and Lombardy's plains. Bologna, pivot of German resistance, was gone...
...Nazi troops, who had fought with fanatical skill through the long winter months, broke suddenly as General Mark Clark sent his armies forward. Down from the mountains came Lieut. General Lucian K. Truscott's Fifth Army. Its leading divisions wheeled east toward Bologna. Lieut. General Richard L. McCreery's Eighth Army drove up from the Adriatic coast, blocked escape routes from Bologna and sent a column west for the city...
...Bologna the two armies met. Almost simultaneously Eighth Army Polish troops under Major General Bohusz-Szyszko moved in from the southeast, while Fifth Army Americans, supported by Italian partisans, entered from the southwest. They found a city almost undamaged, soberly rounding up its Fascists, Italian and German...
...attack spread. In the mountainous center of the peninsula below Bologna Allied artillery poured 75,000 shells into the enemy lines and the troops drove ahead. The advance, measured in yards in the early hours, gradually picked up speed as the German mortars, dug in almost baseplate to baseplate, were overrun...