Word: nettuno
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...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...
...Italian protectorate to all intents and purposes. Diplomats feared that the death of King Zog, the disturbances that are almost certain to ensue, would be just the excuse needed for official Italian intervention. With Albania Italian territory, and Italy colonizing Dalmatia by the terms of the Treaty of Nettuno (TIME, June 17), Italy would have what she has always wanted, virtual command of the Adriatic. Fearful of Italy's hungry eyes, the Albanian Chancellery loudly announced that King Zog was not dumb. He wheezed, they admitted, but remained intelligible. Further he had reduced his cigaret diet from...