Word: nettuno
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before the landing at Nettuno, Lang had spent long weeks with the Fifth Army fighters scrabbling their way foot by foot through the mountains to Cassino. ("By his cheerful sharing of all dangers and hardships he has come to be considered a member of the 'All-American' Division," Commanding General M. B. Ridgway wrote.) And true to form, in the first attack from the beachhead below Rome, dawn found Lang being spattered with mud from exploding German shells right up in the very front lines...
From the beginning there was no doubt that the Allies' beachhead thrust at Nettuno was full of hazard. An amphibious landing on the flank of a stubborn, able foe was bound to be. But this week the risk looked bigger than it ever had, since first the troops waded ashore on the morning...
...Stone Wall. The invaders had not stood idle. But if the concept of their commanders, ranging down from Sir Henry Maitland ("Jumbo") Wilson and Sir Harold R. L. G. Alexander, had called for a quick penetration of German rear areas from Nettuno, then they had failed...
...invaders punched ahead doggedly and profanely. But while the minds of combat soldiers were on the task ahead, their officers' thoughts were on the south. If the Nettuno beachhead was ever to collect the reward of daring, tactical plan, things had to be changed on the Gustav Line, and changed quickly...
...Linchpin. The key to Nettuno was not in the high ground beyond the beachhead. It was down to the southeast, at Cassino, where he was also on high ground, and showing no disposition to give...