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...cluster on the white beaches, then blanketed them with artillery fire from the near hills. At others, naval landing craft bore the troops landward in the face of continuous fire. Everywhere the men of the Fifth Army had to establish themselves on the beaches, make their first moves inland amid shells, bombs, confusion, fear...
TIME Correspondent Will Lang was with a U.S. regiment in that sector. Many of its officers and men were Oklahomans. The regiment was one of several units ordered to march inland, seize high ground commanding a key bridge on the Sele and forestall what finally happened-the German thrust which almost split the beachhead. Said the regiment's Colonel, explaining the orders to his battalion officers: "It's pretty far inland and we don't know exactly what the enemy's got in that area. But it must be urgent to get that high ground...
...them rifles and machine guns. The German spearhead was stopped, enveloped, thrown back. Near the northern end of the bridgehead the British stopped a German advance, seized the town and airfield of Montecorvino Pugliano. On the eleventh day a reporter flying over the lines saw columns of Germans retreating inland...
...Allies won a qualified victory at Salerno, deprived the Germans of a major one. Below Naples, from beaches where death and uncertainty had lately reigned, the British-American Fifth Army moved inland, taking towns, a few airdromes, hills where hell had breathed from German guns. The British Eighth Army had come up from the south. Eighteen days after their first entry into Hitler's Europe, the Allies in lower Italy had the ports, the airdromes, the space they needed to secure their entry and give the Germans an unqualified defeat. For that end, they must now prepare and fight...
Then the men on the inland side of the column got a chance to cheer their favorites in a sulky race that seemed to be in full swing at a track which the marchers passed. Girls leaned from the grandstand and waved while the column pounded past, and several small boys rode bicycles in pursuit of the company...