Word: pesaro
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blow was coming. Allied patrols had probed his line unceasingly for six weeks. But he did not know where the main weight would fall. As in the past, the Eighth Army began slowly (as far back as Aug. 26), grinding out small gains across the Metauro River south of Pesaro on the Adriatic...
...Harold Alexander shifted his greatest strength to the eastern end of the line, struck with such force that Kesselring realized this was the main blow. By then it was too late for him to do much about it. The vengeance-seeking Poles battled their way ten miles into Pesaro, at the mouth of the Foglia River. Tough, fanatical Nazis of the ist Parachute Division, who had shown at Cassino that they knew how to fight, showed at Pesaro that they had not forgotten...