Word: gaeta
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nearly all the Germans had pulled out. They were gone, too, from Gaeta. The troops, watched by Lieut. General Mark Clark (who narrowly escaped being blown up by an exploding land mine), then pushed on into Itri and Fondi. This week U.S. patrols fought into Terracina, were thrown out, waited to fight their way back when the main bodies came...
...beachhead was already secure, Allied patrols were halfway to Rome, tanks and Bren gun carriers were ashore, Allied airmen controlled the skies. If the Germans planned a strong counterattack, no hint of it had come in the first, crucial 48 hours. Instead, Berlin reported new Allied landings at Gaeta and Terracina, just behind the German defense lines...
...Gaeta, Roland Francis, Captain...
With Captain Rowland Gaeta and John Thompson the only members of the Yardling squad who have had any previous experience, the '45 foilmen haven't done so well this season. Only Don Edwards in the foil and John Duke in the epee have shown marked improvement...
Fencing in the foil for the '45 team will be Edwards, Gaeta, and John Thompson; John Duke, Carl Johnson, Bob Miller, and Mart Singer in the epee, and Art DuBois, Kibbey Horne, and Carl Kuhlman in the sabre...