Word: bolognas
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...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...
...almost seven weeks now the U.S. Fifth Army had been edging, inch by weary inch, toward Bologna, still eight miles away. Eastward the British Eighth* worked painfully along the Bologna-Rimini highway, was still 39 miles southeast of Bologna. To the unshaven, mud-stained dogface, red-eyed from lack of sleep, gaunt from K and C rations, it looked like another long, hard winter that civilians could not begin to feel in their preoccupation with the fresh glories of Allied arms...
...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...
...Balkans they stood fast on some sectors, ran fast on others. But they were not generally disorganized or suffering great casualties. In Italy they obdurately contested every yard of the Allied advance toward Bologna; it seemed as if they were fighting this battle, so far from home, more for the sake of their tattered prestige than for strategic gain...