Word: foglia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strength to the eastern end of the line, struck with such force that Kesselring realized this was the main blow. By then it was too late for him to do much about it. The vengeance-seeking Poles battled their way ten miles into Pesaro, at the mouth of the Foglia River. Tough, fanatical Nazis of the ist Parachute Division, who had shown at Cassino that they knew how to fight, showed at Pesaro that they had not forgotten...
...they lost again. Farther up the Foglia, other Eighth Army units stormed across; the front was consolidated on a 20-mile stretch, and a deadly hole three to four miles deep was punched in the Gothic Line...
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