Word: cassino
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...realized this was the main blow. By then it was too late for him to do much about it. The vengeance-seeking Poles battled their way ten miles into Pesaro, at the mouth of the Foglia River. Tough, fanatical Nazis of the ist Parachute Division, who had shown at Cassino that they knew how to fight, showed at Pesaro that they had not forgotten...
Last winter the Force turned up in Italy; along the road to Cassino they captured peak after mountain peak. Then they moved to the Anzio beachhead. There for 99 nights they painted their faces black and roamed through the German positions. The diary of a dead German paid them their most cherished tribute: "The black devils are all around us every time we come into the line and we never hear them come...
...with the greatest barrage and air pounding of his violent career. Thousands of cannon worked over the target area, thousands of R.A.F. and U.S. bombers battered and steamrollered the little towns that could serve as enemy strong points (but even then some airmen growled that it "looked like another Cassino...
...Among ardent strategic airmen a"Cassino"is an overblown operation in which bombers that should be striking at the enemy's heart are used instead to whittle at his fingertips, the targets are broken to complete rubble, and the whole project sags to a halt because of sluggish work on the ground...
Fifteen enlisted men won battlefield promotions. After Cassino, where they had spearheaded the crossing of the Rapido River and had clung to a corner of the town for many days, their combat strength was down...