Word: cassino
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...incompetent and scandal-ridden former regime, including deposed Communist Party Chief Edward Gierek. State television was filled with patriotic World War II films and other uplifting programming, such as an interview with a bemedaled old general who said he had known Jaruzelski since the Battle of Monte Cassino in World War II. (The man was mistaken; Jaruzelski fought in the Soviet army as it marched through Poland and on to Berlin. See box.) He sang the leader's praises and assured viewers that Jaruzelski was an honest soldier who did not have it in his nature to be a dictator...
...commander of a cavalry brigade in 1939, Anders was captured by the invading Russians, and imprisoned along with thousands of other officers until 1941 when they were released to fight the Germans. His corps will be remembered for its dogged and victorious assault on Italy's Monte Cassino Monastery, which opened the road to Rome...
...Citadel of Hue resembled nothing so much as the ruins of Monte Cassino after allied bombs had reduced it to rubble. An avalanche of bricks littered the streets and open spaces, and loose piles of masonry provided cover for both sides in the battle for the fortress. With every explosion of bomb or shell, the air turned red with choking brick dust. Having fought through Hué block by block, house by house, then yard by yard, the U.S. Marines were now engaged in what a company commander called a "brick-by-brick fight" to drive the North Vietnamese forces...
...down to clipped accents, mustaches and swagger sticks. The enlisted men are also right out of Kipling's pages?sturdy Jats and turbaned Sikhs, rawboned Pathans and sinewy Sindhis, volunteers all, whose regimental flags are inscribed with battle names ranging from Ypres and Gallipoli to El Alamein and Monte Cassino and Rangoon...
...York with his resignation when he saw a military parade on Fifth Avenue led by an old West Point friend. Clifton tore up the resignation, stayed in the Army for 29 more years. In Italy, during World War II, Artilleryman Clifton's huge 240-mm. howitzers plastered Cassino with 250,000 shells in 120 days, and Clifton won the Legion of Merit for knocking out Cassino's main supply bridge, which had survived 1,200 air sorties. After the war, Clifton turned to Army public relations, was a top aide for Chief of Staff General Omar Bradley...