Word: grosseto
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Occasionally the enemy turned, like a harried animal, to snap at his pursuers. On lateral Highway 74, from the Tyrrhenian coast to Lake Bolsena, the Germans held a line for three days until it was cracked in three places by General Mark W. Clark's Fifth Army. Grosseto, opposite Elba (see below), fell to the Fifth. With it went a major military airfield about 70 miles from Florence. In 38 days the Fifth had advanced almost 150 miles...