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...Above Naples the Germans might make a stand behind the Volturno River, where the old Romans posted a garrison and Garibaldi beat the Neapolitans. Above Rome, they might run a barricade along the Apennines, from La Spezia on the Ligurian Sea to Rimini on the Adriatic. Above that barrier the land sloped down to the Po Valley, and beyond towered the Alps. Napoleon once had hacked a way across that rampart of nature, via Tarvis and Klagenfurt, toward Vienna. But it was formidable. Rather than a direct road to Germany, Italy might be a flank for other bridgeheads. > Italy leads...
...next day poor A.J. lost his garrison cap, just before visual com., and asked Ensign L.N. Wires to announce the loss over the loud speaker. There was no response. A.J. later found the cap in his belt...
With plenty to occupy them elsewhere, the Germans took time last week to raid Spitsbergen the frozen, far-north island on the edge of the Arctic Ocean. Heavy naval forces shelled a garrison of Norwegians. Said a Berlin communiqué: German grenadiers, in the face of "violent resistance," landed, destroyed installations and coal dumps, seized prisoners, retired...
London minimized the importance of the raid, said the garrison numbered no more than 100 Norwegians. The installations included a weather station and docks. Defenses were three 4-in. cannon and some machine guns. Allied naval units were too far away to intercept the raiding force, which may have included the battleship Tirpitz and other heavy units of the land-loving German navy...
...Solomons, where air attacks have increased in weight and intensity since Major General Nathan F. Twining took tactical command of Army, Navy and Marine Corps planes, heavy blows fell on Bougainville and on the stranded Jap garrison on Kólombangara...