Word: bolognas
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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...
...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...
...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...
...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...