Word: casilina
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...advance on Rome, U.S. and Canadian soldiers could hear the church bells summoning the faithful to Mass. TIME Correspondent Will Lang had spent the night in a dugout under fire. At dawn he piled out and headed up in a jeep toward the sound of firing on Via Casilina. He cabled...
...fall severed the Nazis' lateral communication between Valmontone and Velletri, their two main strongholds in front of the Alban Hills. From Artena, the Fifth Army's big guns shelled Valmontone and adjacent stretches of Via Casilina. So the main escape route to Rome of General von Flietinghoff's Tenth Army remnants, dropping back from Cassino, became a road of dire peril...
Kesselring's Plight. Blocking of Via Casilina would mean that the Germans could retire only on the road north from Arce through Sora, and on the secondary road north from Frosinone. But both routes had a big drawback: they did not lead straight to Rome...
...ancient military doctrine that what cannot be taken by frontal assault can be encircled, General Sir Harold Alexander sent powerful units of his Polish troops around to the right of Cassino. His Britons, Canadians and Indians crossed the Rapido River to the left, circled to cut Via Casilina and join the Poles. The Green Devils were outdeviled...
...planes had knocked out rail communication so completely that no through trains had moved from the Po Valley to the Gustav line since March 24; the Germans had to rely on truck transport, chiefly at night, over Highway No. 7 -the Via Appia-and Highway No. 6-Via Casilina...