Word: salerno
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...after Jack Belden was wounded during the first fighting at Salerno, Calhoun's long-time knowledge of Italy seemed to make him the logical man to replace Belden. And with veteran Harry Zinder still on the job in the Middle East, we lost no time rushing Calhoun back to Italy...
...territory inhabited by 8,000,000 people. The timetable had improved over the last one in Sicily, where the Allies needed 38 days to conquer 10,000 square miles. They were one-third the long way up Italy's boot, well on the way to Rome. Around Salerno, the hard-fighting Fifth had lost nearly 10,000 killed, wounded and missing, about equally divided between Americans and British. The cost for so large an advantage might have been much more...
...theory of design: long range for fighters. In support of ground troops this quality had been proven dramatically only a fortnight before. Without the range built into U.S. single-seaters Lieut. General Mark Clark's Fifth Army, which got fighter cover on the beach at Salerno, would have had a tough go of it. Without it, the probability is that the landing would have been made farther south with less decisive effect...
Fighter cover is now recognized as indispensable to the landing of troops. Now that the Allies are on the offensive, Salerno and Emden meant that future amphibious operations could make longer leaps and, as Douglas MacArthur said, "Permit the application of offensive power in swift massive strokes...
...Sicily Monty's men had held the bloody hinge at Catania while the U.S. Seventh swept across and around the island. British and Canadian casualties had been 31,158, American 7,445. In southern Italy, the British presumably had suffered little. But in the first week at Salerno, the Americans had 3,497 killed, wounded or missing-low by Russian standards, high in proportion to the numbers involved...