Word: langs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...week after the capture of Naples. Lang came very near being killed in the bombing explosion that wrecked the post office. "I had just seated myself next door when it happened," he cabled. "A sudden overwhelming roar, then shattered glass tinkling all around us. It was dark; huge masses of black smoke blotted the light from the room. A wild dissonant chorus of pain pierced up from the Via Cesare Battista. There were some 30 bodies and parts of bodies strewn in death's strange shapes over the street. And there were many others...
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...