Word: salerno
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this human bomb could explode, his mates behind him pushed him out. The last they saw of him, his parachute had opened and he was drifting to earth in a shroud of bursting flame. Some of the airborne divisions were identified: the U.S. 82nd, tough veterans of Sicily and Salerno; the U.S. 101st, in its first battle; the British 6th. They captured gun positions, pillboxes, road junctions, destroyed bridges. Some of them made contact later with ground troops. Some of them, the Germans claimed, were annihilated. The Old Ladies. It was at 5:35 a.m. that morning that the Allied...
Another Army crackdown disclosed last week was the demotion of Major General Ernest J. Dawley, corps commander of the troops who established the Salerno beachhead in Italy. Last September the Fifth Army's Lieut. General Mark Clark dropped Dawley to his permanent rank of colonel for losing control of a combat situation...
...from 640 guns. They arrived in two divisions. On the east they were British and Canadian vessels under the command of Rear Admiral Sir Philip Vian. On the west they were U.S., under the command of Rear Admiral Alan G. Kirk. Never before, not at Tarawa or Kwajalein or Salerno, had a target been subjected to such overwhelming bombardment from...
...other forums, Alvin H. Hanson, Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Political Economy, Seymour E. Harris '20, associated professor of Economics, Joseph Salerno, New England CIO Political Action Committee chairman, and Gorden W. Allport, professor of Psychology, spoke...
...stated in the citation, Barnett "performed creditable service as a member of the Armed Guard crew of a merchant vessel during action against the enemy while acting as part of the invasion fleet at Salerno, 11 to 17 September, 1943. Because of the repeated attacks throughout the six day period, the Navy Gun Crew maintained a constant vigilance, executing their duties with cool efficiency despite the continues danger from falling bombs, shrapnel and withering blasts of enemy machine-gun fire. Their accurate shellfire shot down three hostile bombers...