Word: rapido
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...artillery pieces, 2,000 tanks and 3,000 aircraft burst it asunder. Soldiers by the thousands died trying to scale the 1,700 feet of Monte Cassino. Men of the 36th (Texas) Division splashed through flooded meadows thickly sown with mines, suffered such losses attempting to cross the Rapido River that their morale went to pieces (they demanded a congressional inquiry of their leaders). Gurkhas coming out of the front lines were so shaken that their "eyes stare without seeing, and fatigue seems to have become a skin disease...
...third star at 40.) Later Clark wrung from Admiral Darlan the cease fire order to all French forces in North Africa. After serving as Eisenhower's second in command in North Africa, took command of the U.S. Fifth Army in Italy. Heavy casualties at Anzio, the Rapido River and Cassino brought him abuse from many of his men; Clark's answer could be summed up in the title of his war memoirs: Calculated Risk...
...addition to the opposition of Protestant groups, Clark faced the old enmity of Texas' Tom Connally, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, who holds Clark responsible for the death of a lot of Texas boys of the 36th Division at the Rapido River. Connally had said that if the President resubmitted Clark's name the general would be asked if he wants to stay in the Army. "If so," threatened Connally, "I'll tell him to get back in the Army-just as far back as he can-and stay there...
...entirely different point, Texas' Senator Tom Connally was ready to oppose the nomination. Clark, he said, "showed himself unfit" for any high position by the way he directed the Rapido River battle in Italy during World War II. The 36th Division (Texas National Guard) suffered heavy losses there, and Texans can't forget...
...Clark defends his order of the bloody and abortive attack by the 36th Division across the Rapido below Cassino. It was necessary to draw German defenders away from the projected Anzio landing. The casualties were not 2,900, as the indignant 36th claimed, but 1,681. "If I am to be accused of something, thank God I am accused of attacking instead of retreating...