Word: cassino
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...Mighty Cassino, famed northern anchor of the 25-mile "G for Gustav" Line, fell early (see below). West of the fallen fortress, the Poles pushed into Piedimonte and uprooted the anchor of the supposedly powerful secondary "Hitler Line...
Strongest points on this mountainous line were probably between Pontecorvo and Pico, roughly a third of the way from Cassino to the sea. This week the fast-advancing French threw a block on the five-mile road between them, went to work to take both towns...
...themselves and to much of the world Cassino had become a symbol of Nazi invincibility. Three times since January the Germans had turned back whatever Allies-New Zealanders, Americans, British, Indian Gurkhas-had attempted to drive them out of the town and out of the ancient Benedictine monastery on a nearby hilltop. Said a Nazi general order captured last week: "Cassino has become synonymous with underlying heroism for the Germans. Hell to the Führer...
...Allies chosen to strike now in Italy? To capture Rome? To wipe out the Cassino disgrace? It was much more than that. Said General Sir Harold R. L. G. Alexander in his order of the day: "We are going to destroy the German armies in Italy." There were undoubtedly other factors which General Alexander did not mention...
Modest Intentions. Meantime laymen's disillusionment with air power was growing. Wrote the New York Herald Tribune's Homer Bigart: "It is strange, after reading eyewitness accounts of how Cassino was leveled by the air force, to stand on a hill overlooking the town and see so many buildings still erect. . . . The Allied air forces have been the victims of too much ballyhoo...