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Lanky Lieut. General Mark Clark of the British-American Fifth Army rode his familiar jeep up to the front again. The Italian autumn rains had eased a bit. The spongy volcanic soil of the Volturno meadows firmed rapidly; it was possible now to drive off the roads. From a forward post the General peered across a calm, river-and ditch-ribbed valley to the German positions...
...generals had plotted long and carefully, but they had not left margin enough for the imponderables. They had miscalculated and might still be miscalculating Russian strength. They had overestimated their own air power, had not foreseen the emergence of British-American air power. They had been caught short by their weaknesses in southern Europe. Adolf Hitler might well ponder the words of Prussian Karl von Clausewitz, father of modern strategy...
General Mark Clark's British-American Fifth Army put on its raincoats. Day after day, as the Yanks and Tommies sloshed northward from Naples, the sky drenched the earth. The flat, brown Campania, hard and powder-dusty a fortnight ago, softened into a mire. Rivers swelled, spilled into the meadows along their banks...
...Allies won a qualified victory at Salerno, deprived the Germans of a major one. Below Naples, from beaches where death and uncertainty had lately reigned, the British-American Fifth Army moved inland, taking towns, a few airdromes, hills where hell had breathed from German guns. The British Eighth Army had come up from the south. Eighteen days after their first entry into Hitler's Europe, the Allies in lower Italy had the ports, the airdromes, the space they needed to secure their entry and give the Germans an unqualified defeat. For that end, they must now prepare and fight...
...landed the largest shipment of Ceylon tea ever to arrive at New York. The cargo, 35,000 chests (over 3 million lb.) of tea (enough to last U.S. tea drinkers three weeks), is a part of the 65 million lb. in the U.S. quota under last April's British-American allocation agreement...