Word: dittaino
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tommies Forward. Under savage artillery and mortar fire the Eighth Army leveled a road across the dried river bed of the Dittaino. This was part of the "left hook." In the first were the British 78th Division (veterans of Tunisia's Long Stop Hill), the soth Northumbrians and the 51st Highlanders. Between Centuripe and Paterno they tangled in the hardest struggle of the campaign. But the men that punched forward and the men left behind broke the Etna line, tore away Catania's flank...
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