Word: ortona
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Will Lang was at the front with the Fifth Army fighting its way through the snow-capped Apennines-and "Christmas was just another day." Fill Calhoun, with the Canadians nearer the Adriatic, was quartered in an ex-Fascist's home among the minefields of Ortona-a home that was elegant enough until the retreating Germans vandalized the plumbing along with the statuary...
...Eighth Army continued its town-by-town, hill-by-hill advance up the Adriatic coast toward Ortona, TIME Correspondent Fillmore Calhoun sent this story...
...narrow road that winds toward the coastal town of Ortona in eastern Italy, a Canadian division was in its fiercest fight. General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery had secretly switched his Canadians out of the Apennines to make them part of the spearhead he thrust towards the key Adriatic port of Pescara. For the first time since Sicily, the Canadians were being regularly mentioned in Allied communiqués. Those fighting on an eight-mile front were battlewise veterans of Sicily. They had been with the Eighth Army in its 500-mile march across the heel and up Italy...