Word: leghorn
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...Allied offensive in Italy rolled up toward the next phase of the campaign. Within 24 hours two of the best ports in northern Italy-Leghorn and Ancona-were captured. Five days later the Allies were at the Arno River, had fought in the streets of Pisa, stood only twelve miles from Florence. Only these two cities remained before the last grand assault of the Battle of Italy could be begun-the attack on the German Gothic Line in the high Appenines...
...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...
Along the Tyrrhenian Sea Lieut. General Mark W. Clark's Fifth Army, stymied on the coastal road, threw its shoulder against a sector farther inland. It heaved through the hills to outflank the port of Leghorn, Italy's third largest, which the Allies must have for the assault on the Gothic Line...
...Allied strategists saw it, the Germans would fall back to the Arno River as soon as they lost two seaports-Leghorn on the west coast, Ancona on the east. Once the river was passed in their delaying action, the Germans would drop back another 20 miles to the fortified Gothic Line...
...Tyrrhenian coast the shallow port of Piombino was taken; less than a week later Cecina, 25 miles farther north, was captured. Leghorn was only 17 miles beyond. Siena, a medieval jewel, which had been carefully spared Allied artillery fire, fell virtually unharmed to French and Americans...