Word: salerno
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Later, riding back, he met some field officers. "Hit 'em hard, boys," he said, "damn hard!" His jeep passed a signpost giving the kilometers to Rome: 192 (120 mi.). "That's not so far," he commented. "I remember seeing the first sign to Naples after landing at Salerno. It read 105 kilometers. We made it all right. Just as the boys of the Fifth Army will make Rome...
...zero hour. Down to the bank hurried British and American infantry. They waded, swam, paddled and chugged across. Those who got over and clawed up the steep north bank, and those who fell by the way, had taken their hardest punishment since Salerno. They had given punishment, too, and behind them the tough engineers could now thrust bridges for jeeps, tanks and big guns...
...Germans might here be ready to make their first major stand since Salerno. They had now fallen back 20 miles north of Naples, 105 miles south of Rome...
...enemy's next reaction had been alarm, for the Eighth's rapid advance could develop into a flank attack against the Germans on the peninsula's other side. From the Volturno front Field Marshal Albert Kesselring rushed the 16th Armored Division, veteran of Stalingrad and Salerno, to counterattack at Termoli...
...year capped by Salerno and Emden, the Army Air Forces, just finishing off a phenomenal growth of 3,500% in two years (and now bigger than the U.S. Navy), had written a book of tactics, proved new aircraft, broadened the functions of older types. So had the U.S. naval air arm, but on a scale proportionate to its smaller size, its more limited function as a supporting weapon of the fleet...