Word: garigliano
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...march on Rome slithered forward. Despite mud, mountains and fresh men brought down from the north by Field Marshal Albert Kesselring, the Allied armies worked into position for a wheeling drive. Lieut. General Mark Clark's Fifth held the hinge along the Garigliano River, pinned down the bulk of ten Nazi divisions. General Sir Bernard Montgomery's Eighth butted to the Sangro River, threatened to envelop the German defense of Rome from the Adriatic flank...
...line was supposed to be defined by the Garigliano River on the west and the Sangro River on the east side of Italy. Between the two rivers the Germans were dug into formidable, tangled mountain positions. But the actions which took place last week, particularly in that central tangle, suggested that the "winter line" was more a journalistic phrase than a military reality...
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