Word: rapido
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Boyish-looking, 24-year-old Aubrey Holland was a medical aid man with the Fifth Army in Italy. During the bloody crossing of the Rapido River, while he was helping the wounded, he was badly hurt himself. The fighting rolled on and Holland lay unattended on the river bank with a shattered arm and leg. He lay there for four days. When medics finally got to him, his feet and one hand were frozen. Doctors amputated both his legs...
...Allied Commander General Sir Harold R. L. G. Alexander might regroup, force the Arno as he did the Rapido. There would still lie ahead the mountains and pillboxes of the Gothic Line...
Fifteen enlisted men won battlefield promotions. After Cassino, where they had spearheaded the crossing of the Rapido River and had clung to a corner of the town for many days, their combat strength was down...
...artillery and their bombing and desperate infantry charges. Reverting to the ancient military doctrine that what cannot be taken by frontal assault can be encircled, General Sir Harold Alexander sent powerful units of his Polish troops around to the right of Cassino. His Britons, Canadians and Indians crossed the Rapido River to the left, circled to cut Via Casilina and join the Poles. The Green Devils were outdeviled...
...third attack, just completed, followed another plan. First the town was to be completely destroyed by terrific bombardment and quickly occupied by assault. Then the hills around the abbey were to be stormed, and with the German strong points thus neutralized, another large-scale crossing of the Rapido was to be attempted...