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...Will Lang of TIME was one of the seven American newsmen who waded ashore with the American troops when they made their surprise landing just below Rome, joined a battalion moving up for the first attack at dawn-as he had often done before...
...Lang got his baptism of fire in Italy the second day of Salerno, when he found himself the only correspondent with an American regiment that was completely surrounded and cut off from the coast by superior German forces...
Three weeks later Lang was the first American correspondent to enter gutted Naples-just ten minutes behind the advance British reconnaissance cars. (It's a habit with him-last spring Lang and four companions rode into Tunis twelve hours ahead of the Army, pulled up at Nazi headquarters before the last Germans had cleared...
With the men at the Nettuno beachhead (see map) was TIME Correspondent Will Lang. Of the local, intermittent fighting in the first days, he cabled...
...Will Lang was at the front with the Fifth Army fighting its way through the snow-capped Apennines-and "Christmas was just another day." Fill Calhoun, with the Canadians nearer the Adriatic, was quartered in an ex-Fascist's home among the minefields of Ortona-a home that was elegant enough until the retreating Germans vandalized the plumbing along with the statuary...