Word: cecina
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tyrrhenian coast the shallow port of Piombino was taken; less than a week later Cecina, 25 miles farther north, was captured. Leghorn was only 17 miles beyond. Siena, a medieval jewel, which had been carefully spared Allied artillery fire, fell virtually unharmed to French and Americans...
Some months ago the bridge at Cecina on the west coast line was smashed. The Germans toiled for 78 days to build a new one; twelve hours after it was finished, Uncle Joe's flyers wrecked it as thoroughly as the first...
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