Word: cassino
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...said Souza, "you've made it." Thus the Anzio beachhead passed into history, after four months of toil, tribulation and terror. The beachhead front and the Cassino front at last were one, and this was high drama for home-front folks leaping at headlines. The Allied offensive in Italy formed the southern prong of the promised triple attack on Hitler's heartland. With things going so well in the south, D-day in the west and the pounce of the Russian giant could not be far behind...
...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...
Last week, six days after the new offensive in Italy began, Cassino was in Allied hands. So were 1,500 "Green Devils" of the crack German 1st Parachute Division, plus enough captured materiel to outfit two artillery divisions...
...time the Allies relied not only upon their artillery and their bombing and desperate infantry charges. Reverting to the 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...
...this time Cassino, a mass of rubble and broken stones, had lost its strategic value. But morale-wise it was a great victory...