Word: nettuno
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...Nettuno's beaches last week, the Allied Command tested the alternative to frontal assault. It worked. The Allies had found a short cut to Rome; they had also outflanked the enemy, massed to meet them in the south...
...Tyrrhenian Sea lay calm. Somewhere above the moonlit clouds purred Allied planes. To the east, two miles away, loomed Italy's dark shape. Landing craft churned towards Nettuno's eroded, frosted beach. Tense, eager men jumped into the icy rollers, waded ashore...
Weeks later General Dwight D. Eisenhower blueprinted the bold coup at Nettuno. But December's bad weather, the lack of ships, the High Command's reluctance to release the needed men and supplies delayed the plan...
Teamwork Is All. In preparation, Allied aircraft had ranged far and wide, attacking German railheads, highways, bridges, airfields, fuel dumps. Before D-day arrived, only one German fighter field within easy range of the Nettuno beachhead remained usable. On the invasion's second day, the Luftwaffe made only 100 sorties to the Allies...