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Would Alexander try to by-pass and encircle Rome, or attack it directly? What was to prevent him from staging another beachhead operation north of the city? Would he develop another flanking movement far to the east, at Pescara on the Adriatic...
Since February, destruction on the railroads has spread over an area 150 miles wide, from Rome to Pisa on the east coast, from Pescara to Rimini on the west. Uncle Joe's mediums and fighter bombers have smashed bridges, tunnels and tracks at scores, even hundreds, of places, and the fighters have gone back to shoot up repair crews...
Another Commander. To the east, three miles above captured Ortona (TIME, Jan. 10), the Eighth Army paused. A gale, whipping down from the Apennines, ripped away roof tiles, chilled men and mules, stalled movement. "Point 59," another pillboxed ridge, barred the nine miles yet to go to Pescara, Adriatic terminal of the shortest (125 mi.) trans-peninsular railroad and highway to Rome...
...week's end the victors had pushed two miles above Ortona, were ten miles below Pescara, Adriatic terminus of the shortest transpeninsular rail-and-highway to Rome. Theirs had been the most notable gain in another week of hill-by-hill advance up the Italian boot. Through dead Ortona, the Canadians trudged after the retreating, fighting Germans...
...From Pescara...