Word: retreats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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More of Same. There was no evidence last week that Kesselring had any reason to change his opinion of Allied tactics. By now the Germans had lost 32,000 prisoners from 24 different divisions. Two-thirds of Italy was now in Allied hands and the hot, dusty retreat was approaching the "Gothic Line" of prepared defense works...
Field Marshal Albert Kesselring-who was certainly in a position to know-gave his officers an estimate of the Allied offensive in Italy. In the scramble for retreat a copy was captured by the Fifth Army...
Leaflets had warned the battered Cherbourg garrison to surrender or die. They were ignored: Nazi officers had orders to shoot, any man who attempted to retreat or give up. The attack was run off in the classic form that an army can achieve when it has overwhelming air power, plenty of good artillery, plenty of well-trained, hard-fighting infantrymen...
...fluid, disordered German retreat up Italy's boot suddenly hardened. Five new divisions, one each from Hungary, Belgium, Denmark, the Balkans and North Italy had joined the rearguard defense...
...Back to Retreat. By this week the German defense had again begun to waver. The retreat was resumed, in somewhat better order. Seven Allied columns went after them, en route for the next major Allied objectives. One was Ancona, one of the finest ports on the Adriatic, where ships to Dalmatia and Yugoslavia could find good harbor. Another was the Tyrrhenian port of Leghorn, already echoing to German demolition charges...