Word: nettuno
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cassino, linchpin of the Gustav Line, had to fall before the Nettuno attackers could move. Held long enough, it might even enable the Germans, rushing down fresh troops from north Italy and pulling seasoned outfits out of the Gustav Line, to force abandonment of the beachhead...
Once Cassino fell, the Gustav Line would have to fold. With sounder timing, that should have happened in the first week of the Nettuno landing. But somehow, almost encircled, Cassino held. Result: when the beachhead soldiers pushed forward they were driving against no rear area disorganized and road-clogged with retreat. They were banging their heads against a well-organized, coolly conducted, unfettered line of resistance...
From a Command Post on the Nettuno beachhead, TIME Correspondent Will Lang watched one of the innumerable small-unit actions by which U.S. troops have struck at German defenses. He cabled this report...
...pilots had survived disappointments, discouragements and months of routine operations in which they did not even sight an enemy. They had finally got their big chance flying cover for the Allies' Nettuno beachhead, and they knew what to do with...
...through a long series of monotonous missions, bomber escort or fighter-bomber jobs. For six months the men never saw a German plane. But the outfit was pulling itself together, acquiring confidence and smoothness, developing good flight leaders, and piling up combat time. When its chance came again, over Nettuno, the squadron was veteran, well-led, sure of itself...