Word: capuzzo
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...wall against land warfare. At Salum just two precipitous gullies run from the plain to the top of the plateau and Libya. Into those bottlenecks the British chased the remainder of what British communiques calmly called "the beaten Italian Army." This week they captured Salum and Fort Capuzzo...
Italian strategy was not the German one of fanning and pinching mechanized columns. There was only one Italian drive. The Italian commander, Marshal Rodolfo Graziani, used Foch's plan of "applying superior force at one point." From Fort Capuzzo in Libya (see map}), fortnight ago, started the Italian spearhead-a long thin line of light Fiat tanks in Indian file, three infantry regiments, including many blacks, a machine-gun battalion, a company equipped with mortars, an artillery regiment with heavier 10-centimetre Ansaldos and Vickers 15.2s, two sapper companies with well-drilling and road-building equipment...
...death, into attempting a Blitzkrieg drive with a mechanized column of more than 1,000 men on the fortified British coastal base of Sollum, 75 miles east of Tobruch. The British broke up this effort with a flanking attack, and the survivors took refuge in the deserted adobe Fort Capuzzo. There they still were after a thirsty week, sucking stones to eke out their water supply, which the British cut off by removing many sections of the pipeline down from Bardia. British artillery, pounding their defenses, drove them into trenches. British shells and a detachment of light tanks broke...
Pietro will be accompanied by Giuseppe Radaelli, Agostino Capuzzo, Rino Dldrati, Irma Vigano, Maria Lecer-Casale, Adriana Boccanera, Enrico Nani, Francesco Novelli and Luciana Donaggio, singers. Signers Alfredo Salmaggi and Antonio Ferrara have already arrived as couriers and business managers...