Word: bolognas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...struck from the Senio River across the Santerno and then the Sillaro. The Germans gave ground carefully, holding village strongpoints until the last. By week's end the Eighth had driven farther into the Po basin and was reaching to link up with the Americans below Bologna...
...Allies were attacking. Using tactics old when General James Wolfe scaled Quebec's heights in 1759, Major General George P. Hayes's roth Mountain Division was jolting the German loose from the Apennine positions upon which he had based the center of his line. South of Bologna expert climbers set ropes on sheer cliff faces. Up those ropes swarmed the troops to catch the Nazis by surprise, smash them back five miles through jagged country. U.S. troops, supported by Brazilians, drove against the defenses of the Panara Valley, reached for the highway junction of Vergato...
...Americans pushed a cautious advance toward Bologna, pulled back under heavy German artillery fire. The British stormed a railroad bridge north of Faenza four times, were driven back each time. The Canadians, who had cleared the enemy from 50 square miles between the Reno River and the Valli di Commacchio lagoon, met stiffer resistance and came to a halt...
Punishing weather in Italy had lightened a little, permitted the British Eighth Army, struggling northwest from Rimini toward Bologna, to batter the Germans out of their trenches and from behind rivers and canals. Then, as troops captured Forli and stalled again before German defense lines, a fall of unseasonable snow dropped a white curtain over the advance...
...bearing on the Italian campaign. The report: burly, ex-Airman Field Marshal Albert Kesselring, sparkplug of the wily German defense, had followed in the tire-tracks of the late Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, been "very seriously" wounded by Allied planes which sent his automobile spinning axle over top near Bologna. Berlin said nothing...