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Word: piombino (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tyrrhenian coast the shallow port of Piombino was taken; less than a week later Cecina, 25 miles farther north, was captured. Leghorn was only 17 miles beyond. Siena, a medieval jewel, which had been carefully spared Allied artillery fire, fell virtually unharmed to French and Americans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF ITALY: Kudos from Kesselring | 7/10/1944 | See Source »

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