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...only one incident occurred during the first two and a half weeks-a group of Tito's men one night jumped an American soldier and stole his rifle. Colonel Rudolph W. Broedlow, commanding the regiment, forbade any retribution. Later, when Broedlow calmly shifted his troops east of the Isonzo River, the Yugoslavs asked how come the Yanks were penetrating "Yugoslav territory." Broedlow said his orders carried him just so far, that was where he was going, and furthermore he hoped the Yugoslavs wouldn't give him any trouble. They didn...
Along the Isonzo, every cluster of peasant houses sported a half-dozen flags, both Italian and Yugoslav. The flags were made of silk from parachutes we had used to drop food and supplies to the Partisans when they were fighting the Germans. On every building there were red stars and signs reading: "Tukaj je Jugoslavia" (This is Yugoslavia) and "Zivjo Tito" (Long live Tito...
...Terror. The country north of Trieste undoubtedly is Slovene as far west as the Isonzo. But it is equally certain that Trieste is an Italian city...
...actual battle. After Field Marshal Sir Harold Alexander issued a blistering statement denouncing Marshal Tito's occupation of the city, New Zealand troops followed the Yugoslav example and went about the streets with automatic rifles. North of Trieste Tito withdrew some troops to the defensible line of the Isonzo river (see map). The Yugoslavs moved their main headquarters back from Trieste, but showed no sign of relaxing their grip on the city. Lest it be cut off in case of fighting, the one U.S. battalion in the city withdrew toward the main U.S. force at Gorizia. The New Zealanders...
Kesselring might make a pause in the Dolomites and along the Isonzo River (bloody battleground in World War I), where Italy is hinged to Yugoslavia. But these lines would be untenable if the Nazis in Yugoslavia collapsed behind...