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...Battalion of one of the 9th's regiments stormed Fort Equeurdreville, a citadel like a buried warship at the extreme left (west) of the line. In the center Major General Ira Wyche's 79th Division smashed successive layers of Fort du Roule; on the right Major General Raymond O. Barton's 4th Division drove to the waterfront...
...that he would not be home by Christmas ; where he might be, he would not wager. Mark Clark had said: Naples, Rome and a liberated Italy. These, obviously, were immediate objectives. For every bridgehead must ultimately lead or contribute to the advance on the Nazi heartland, the German inner citadel...
Against this confused citadel of the Axis troops, the Allies, at week's end, struck another blow. Commando trooops landed and Bagnara on the west side of the toe, joined another force that had landed at Catona. Behind Allied planes that bombed and strafed enemy strong points, Montgomery's men cautiously advanced around the ball...
...Charleston's famed Citadel, where military-minded young Southerners go to learn soldiering, a tradition of 100 years was broken when no grits was available for breakfast. Vexed South Carolina housewives started a small boom in hand gristmills, scoured the countryside in search of corn...
...press conference in Quebec, charming, 20-year-old Mary told reporters she was quartered in the Citadel, on the same floor as her father. "I run errands and make myself useful whenever I can," said she. "Papa mostly works, and very late. Occasionally we see a movie, and last night we saw Disney's South American film, Saludos Amigos." Asked What the P. M. calls his aide-de-camp, she replied: "He just says, 'Mary, where...