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...Foggia (pop. 58,000), the Allies have a traffic junction second only to Naples. There the Axis had built a huge nest of airdromes...
...Germans fell back in order, leaving hasty graves, dead tanks, blocked roads, vicious mine fields. The Eighth raced up inland and along the Adriatic, approach ing the big road, rail and air junction at Foggia. The envelopment of Naples was under...
...Allies might strive for a bridgehead at theRhone's mouth, thereby begin the liberation of France and a march to the Rhine. >Italy is a springboard to the Balkans, where the passes and valleys, although few and difficult, lead to the vital Danube basin, a possible junction with the Red Army, and the shaky Nazi back door. Last week Allied sea power, in the form of a flotilla of torpedo boats, raided Albanian waters, exchanged fire with shore batteries, sank two enemy merchantmen. Italy is a base of air attack on Germany -directly from airdromes in Italy, by shuttle...
...practicable points of entry,, the Germans can hope to gain time and inflict heavy losses in a profitable rear-guard-stand. It is there, if anywhere, that they must hold a gate to their inner fortress-and fight to bar the British and Americans from a junction with the Russians...
...Chaplino, a railway junction 60 miles from Zaporozhe. To take it, Red Cavalry and tanks broke through the German rear...