Word: gothically
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...Ancona-were captured. Five days later the Allies were at the Arno River, had fought in the streets of Pisa, stood only twelve miles from Florence. Only these two cities remained before the last grand assault of the Battle of Italy could be begun-the attack on the German Gothic Line in the high Appenines...
...slow fight through northern Italy began to speed up again. Both the Fifth and Eighth Armies made their most rapid advances in weeks, passed Arezzo in the center, on the west drew close to the German Arno River line, outpost of the Gothic mountain line where the Germans hope to stand and hold...
...Lieut. General Mark W. Clark's Fifth Army, stymied on the coastal road, threw its shoulder against a sector farther inland. It heaved through the hills to outflank the port of Leghorn, Italy's third largest, which the Allies must have for the assault on the Gothic Line...
...Allied strategists saw it, the Germans would fall back to the Arno River as soon as they lost two seaports-Leghorn on the west coast, Ancona on the east. Once the river was passed in their delaying action, the Germans would drop back another 20 miles to the fortified Gothic Line...
Allied headquarters carefully prepared the public for the coming halt. Communiques and spokesmen said the Gothic Line was the strongest natural-defense line in Italy, more formidable even than the Gustav defenses, which held below Rome all winter...