Word: cisterna
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Etna. In Sicily, Mt. Etna was erupting again. A wide stream of lava creeping down its 10,741-ft. slope had cut a mountain highway, partially filled a reservoir, and frightened the villagers of Cisterna from their homes...
...Sidi bou Zid it was thrown back on its wheels. It recovered and under Major General Ernest ("Hardboiled") Harmon drove through Macknassy and opened the way into Bizerte. Later the ist fought at Cassino. It Janded at Anzio, aided the breakout, fought a savage engagement in the area of Cisterna and Campo Leone. First to cross the Tiber, it marched into Rome with the fresh man 88th, the 88th and the redhot ist Special Service Force. After that their style was cramped in the battering, constricted Italian campaign...
Last week Mrs. Mills heard startling news about frail Jimmy: in Italy, 21-year-old Private James H. Mills of the infantry had won the Congressional Medal of Honor for conspicuous gallantry during his first encounter with the enemy. Last May, near Cisterna de Littoria, he had knocked out two Nazi machine-gun nests singlehanded by killing four Germans (with five shots) and capturing seven more. Then he had repeatedly set himself up as a decoy target while his platoon surrounded an enemy strong point and captured 22 prisoners without suffering a casualty...
Concentrated Hell. Bloody was the struggle for Cisterna, where General von Mackensen, commanding the German Fourteenth Army, had turned the railway embankment into a fortification. There some U.S. Rangers, members of two battalions wiped out in the frustrated attack of Jan. 30, were still rotting on the ground...
Last week the Americans had 1,000 field pieces pouring concentrated hell on Cisterna. Even so they had to repulse seven German tank thrusts before they moved in through a jungle of booby traps and mines and a mass of shattered and scorched tanks, half-tracks, trucks and self-propelled guns...