Word: salerno
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...winter of 1943-44, after a bloody mauling at Salerno, the men of the 36th Division went back into the line. A few weeks later, at the Rapido River, the Fifth Army's Lieut. General Mark Clark committed them to one of the bloodiest engagements of the Italian campaign...
...Please bring him back." The War Department is studying a plan whereby, after an overseas cemetery has been 60% evacuated by request, the other 40% will be evacuated without request. This would almost certainly mean the abandonment of all far-flung World War II cemeteries-from Iwo Jima to Salerno-where U.S. dead have been laid to rest. Incomplete records listed 122,000 buried in the European Theater, 41,000 in the Mediterranean, 29,000 in the Southwest Pacific, 11,000 in Pacific Ocean areas. The cost of exhuming and transshipping all the shattered, canvas-wrapped remains might...
...fire department. He had trained all his officers and 150 of his men to be divers, at the Pier 88 salvage school and in the dank holds of the capsized Normandie three years ago. Their graduate work had been done in the choked harbors of Casablanca and Oran, at Salerno and Naples and Cherbourg...
Gene Smith typifies the spirit in which TIME & LIFE men have been risking their lives on every front - from Kasserine Pass to Salerno and on up through the Apennines, from the beaches of Normandy through the Ardennes and on to the Elbe, on Bataan and in the retreat with Stilwell...
...Italian printer to bring out another book of sketches, Sicily Sketchbook, which sold 5,000 copies to one regiment, earned him $1,800, earned the News $600. He switched from the 45th Division News to Stars & Stripes, with an assignment to cover the war in cartoons. He landed at Salerno. He was wounded near Venafro. He brought out Mud, Mules and Mountains (sale: 300,000 copies, which the Army printed; he made nothing...