Word: brihuega
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Dates: during 1937-1937
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...shall be in Bilbao any day, any hour," he boasted. "Eight thousand Italians and Germans are leading the advance, and this time we are mixing the Germans in with the Italians just so the Italians will not repeat the Brihuega adventure...
Novel-reading admirers of Ernest Hemingway, who boasts that he sharply distinguishes in his own mind between Novelist Hemingway (gruesome, gory, hyper-cynical) and Journalist Hemingway (objective, conscientious and in good taste), were struck by his description of signs of Italian valor on the battlefield of "little Caporetto" or Brihuega last week. "The scrub oak woods," cabled Journalist Hemingway, "are still full of Italian dead that burial squads have not yet reached. Tank tracks lead to where they died, not as cowards but defending skillfully constructed machine-gun and automatic-rifle positions, where the tanks found them and where they...
...fields and oak forest are rocky and the Italians were forced to build rocky parapets rather than attempt to dig the soil where a spade would not cut, and the horrible effect of shells- from the guns of the 60 tanks that fought with the [Leftist] infantry in the Brihuega battle-bursting in and against these rock piles made a nightmare of corpses. The small Italian tanks, armed only with machine guns, were as helpless against the medium-sized [Madrid] Government tanks, armed with cannon and machine guns, as Coast Guard cutters would be against armored cruisers...
...Reports that Brihuega was simply an air victory, with [Italian] columns stampeded and panicked without fighting, are corrected when the battlefield is studied. It was a bitterly fought seven-day battle, much of the time rain and snow making auto transport impossible...