Word: elba
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...enemy turned, like a harried animal, to snap at his pursuers. On lateral Highway 74, from the Tyrrhenian coast to Lake Bolsena, the Germans held a line for three days until it was cracked in three places by General Mark W. Clark's Fifth Army. Grosseto, opposite Elba (see below), fell to the Fifth. With it went a major military airfield about 70 miles from Florence. In 38 days the Fifth had advanced almost 150 miles...
Spearheaded by French colonials, Allied forces landed on the historic island of Elba, between Corsica and Italy, methodically cleaned up this small (19 by 6½ miles) German outpost on their flank. By nightfall of the first day, the Tricolor floated over the villa that Napoleon left for the Hundred Days and Waterloo. This week isolated pockets of Nazi resistance were being mopped up in the hills...
...Said Correspondent Steinbeck: he had missed Benito Mussolini by less than twelve hours. "I talked with a number of inhabitants. They said Mussolini assured them he would return to power and re-establish the Fascist regime, comparing himself presently with Napoleon-the parallel being Napoleon's exile on Elba...
...seacoast town not far from the Isle of Elba...
Waiting-for-Christmas. Before going out of action, the French joined the British in giving Italy a copious taste of air-bombing at Turin (home of Fiat motors), Milan and Venice. French cruisers and destroyers shelled the Ligurian coast (San Remo to Elba), the Italians replying with coast guns and torpedoes, claiming two destroyers struck...