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Monument by Monument. But dust had not freshly settled over the Cassino abbey before the Allies faced another monument. Allied GHQ in Algiers announced that Castel Gandolfo, the Pope's summer palace, approximately twelve miles north of the Anzio beachhead, "contained a heavy saturation of Nazis." Five days later, Rome announced that Castel Gandolfo had again been bombed...
Gutted but not destroyed was the Castel Nuovo (probably the most imposing monument in Naples...
Intact were the Cascades at Caserta, a famed waterway lined with baroque sculpture; the Castel del Monte, near Bari (depository for all the art treasures of the Bari area); the 12th-Century cathedral at Bari...
...week that April 18 was the anniversary of his raid on Tokyo. He looked in his logbook, found an entry describing "a 13-hour flight - one landing," and said: "So it was." On a typical day last week his Fortresses found 112 Axis transport planes on the ground at Castel-vetrano, Sicily, and destroyed 51, including eight huge six-motored planes; found 106 more at Milo, destroyed...
While U. S. Flying Fortresses alone smashed 44 enemy aircraft on the Axis airdrome at Castel Benito near Tripoli, planes of the Middle East Command hammered Tripoli itself, the nearby port of Homs, Crete, Sicily and Lampedusa island in the Sicilian straits...