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Into a quadrangle bounded by Balleroy, Tilly-sur-Seulles, Villers-Bocage and Caumont (see map), both the Allied armies and the enemy threw infantry-tank combat teams. The British got into Tilly, got thrown out, tried to get in again. The cost, in men and vehicles, was becoming too steep...
...days until it was cracked in three places by General Mark W. Clark's Fifth Army. Grosseto, opposite Elba (see below), fell to the Fifth. With it went a major military airfield about 70 miles from Florence. In 38 days the Fifth had advanced almost 150 miles (see map...
Allied strafing and bombing planes were in the Arno River valley, behind which the Germans have been building the "Gothic Line" (see map). Its outposts were reportedly at Pisa, Florence, and Rimini. However, Allied sources revealed that an additional defense in depth had been constructed farther north-from Marina di Carrara, some 30 miles above Pisa, eastward to a point 18 miles above Florence...
Atlantic Wall? Countering boisterous dispatches that the highly advertised defenses were "the biggest bluff of the whole war," the London Times military correspondent rumbled: "This is to do less than justice to the Allied troops." Said Reuter's Stanley Burch: "You could not make a single pinpoint on the map of the invasion beachhead not covered by crossfire from machine guns, mortars or light artillery...
...newspaper supply ran even shorter of demand than usual. Clubs and study groups swamped the Moscow Lecture Bureau with requests for Second Front speakers. More than one comrade puzzled over the map of France in the British Embassy's publication, Britanski Soyusnik (British Ally). On it the English Channel appeared as "Angliski Canal." Russians, accustomed to the French "La Manche,"asked: "When did the English build the canal between themselves and France...