Word: salerno
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ultimate Job. The bruising melee on the beaches of Salerno had been hell for the men of the Fifth. It had been touch & go, as Winston Churchill said, "from day three to day seven." But hell for the men was a school for the generals...
Without benefit of surprise, at the fag end of vital fighter-plane range, they had come ashore, skillfully coordinated their sea, air and land power, taken stiff punish ment, given harder blows back. If the Fifth had failed at Salerno, the Eighth would have had a much tougher job. And Mark Clark's reputation would have suffered an eclipse...
...Italy is a road to the Reich. But it is a long road: 800 miles from Salerno to the Brenner Pass. The peninsula is wrinkled with mountains. As in Tunisia and Sicily, relatively small German units could hold the ridges, command the valleys and coastal defiles, give ground slowly and at a price...
...British units. It was the first U.S. Army of World War II activated abroad. It had trained long and earnestly for seven months in Africa, and some of its units had been tested in Sicily. It had received its final temper in seven days of shock and fire at Salerno. The Fifth had been organized in North Africa. As its Commander in Chief, Mark Clark had military jurisdiction over 225,000 sq. mi. of North African soil. He established headquarters in the vacated Ècole des Jeunes Filles at Oujda, in French Morocco, a town of 35,000 (less than...
...give each soldier versatility. Mark Clark did not believe in overdone ultraspecialization. The quality of his teachings attracted visitors. Many a soldier of Lieut. General George Patton's Seventh Army got his final polish in General Clark's classes. And when the Fifth embarked for the Salerno beaches, it had been graduated cum laude from the toughest of training camps...