Word: cassino
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...left lies the narrow Liri Valley, through which leads the only practical road-but it is not passable so long as the Germans can pour deadly fire from the hills behind Cassino. This was proved in the first attack last January. U.S. troops crossed the Rapido (in the foreground), only to be forced to retire after heavy casualties...
...second attack was made on the monastery hill (from the right) after a two-day bombing of the abbey. But the attackers never quite gained the summit. Meantime, after many days of house-to-house fighting, U.S. troops had taken only a third of the town of Cassino...
...town of Cassino was virtually destroyed (although the air bombing was apparently not so heavy as originally reported). New Zealand troops did storm three-quarters of the town. That night the hills back of the town were assaulted, but in a torrential rain the attackers became disorganized-some gained their objectives, others failed...
...ruined abbey on Mt. Cassino the Germans still clung lizardlike, watching every movement of Allied units and directing artillery fire on every attack...
...town, where the main highway, No. 6, curves sharply and passes around the base of Mt. Cassino, the Germans held the Hotel Continental, somewhat protected from Allied artillery by the lee of the hill. Its roof is gone, and its heavy, pastel-tinted walls have been scored by shellfire and bomb blast, but from the dark empty sockets of its windows German guns spit with terrible effectiveness. Once the hotel was nearly captured: the Germans holding it surrendered. During an explosive bombardment the hotel filled up again with green-clad German paratroopers. Three German tanks fired from the lobby, occasionally...