Word: leghorn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Leghorn, Italy's third largest port, was outflanked. Lieut. General Mark W. Clark's Fifth Army sidestepped fantastically thick mine fields on the Tyrrhenian coast by swinging in its shock troops, including Hawaiian-Japanese (see ARMY & NAVY) from the east, forced the Germans to pull...
Into the desolate ruins of Leghorn wormed the 34th Division. Engineers found 900 mines along one mile of road, gave up digging and began blowing them up. Maps prepared by Italian Partisans in the footsteps of the methodical Germans indicated that Leghorn was the most thorough mining job ever attempted...
...growing in the boulevards, only a tenth of the peacetime population of 125,000 still pottering through the dismal embers left by Allied bombings, German demolitions. The 60 docks, 35 cranes, 21 warehouses were an addled mess. Across the harbor entrance lay three sunken ships. It was plain that Leghorn would be little help to Allied supply problems for weeks to come...
...away, shaven-headed Lieut. General Wladyslaw Anders' durable Poles were still in the running on the Adriatic flank. In three weeks they had advanced 30 miles up the coast. Last week they snatched Ancona from two German divisions. Ancona's port-handy for Yugoslavia-was stoppered, like Leghorn, with wrecked ships. Among them: the Ida, 498-ton pride of passionate yachtsman ex-King Vittorio Emanuele...
More recently the Japanese-Americans have seen action at San Luce and Pastina. Last week their versatility was further recognized. They had pitched in with the Engineers to help rebuild the port of Leghorn. Said their commander, Major General Charles W. Ryder: they're the best troops in the Division...