Word: cassino
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Before the landing at Nettuno, Lang had spent long weeks with the Fifth Army fighters scrabbling their way foot by foot through the mountains to Cassino. ("By his cheerful sharing of all dangers and hardships he has come to be considered a member of the 'All-American' Division," Commanding General M. B. Ridgway wrote.) And true to form, in the first attack from the beachhead below Rome, dawn found Lang being spattered with mud from exploding German shells right up in the very front lines...
...there was no exultant wave of optimism. The people were taking victories as they took defeat, soberly and doggedly. And the news from Europe was a hard checkrein on enthusiasm-the compressed beachhead below Rome, the slow inch-by-inch bitterness of Cassino...
...Linchpin. The key to Nettuno was not in the high ground beyond the beachhead. It was down to the southeast, at Cassino, where he was also on high ground, and showing no disposition to give...
Afterward, cannon again dueled across the dead field. To the north, other U.S. soldiers had crossed the Rapido, filtered to the outskirts of Cassino. But German guns in the mountains above swept the village, and it could not yet be occupied...
...huge stone overlooking Cassino an undated inscription reads: "Our Father, Who art in Heaven, unite England to us again in the brotherhood of the faith...