Word: salerno
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...Generals Matthew Ridgway and Maxwell Taylor were responsible for canceling an airdrop on Rome that, by Murphy's calculations, might have shortened the Italian campaign by eight months. But, he adds, the 82nd Air-orne Division was an important part of the assault plans on Salerno, and may have been withheld for that reason...
Valerio's new company is already building a plant near Caserta to produce new building materials developed in Russia and another in Salerno to make aluminum products. Valerio has set up a division to manufacture calculating machines, linked an Edison oil outfit to a U.S. drilling company, and bought a slice of a big Italian pasta maker. But Edison's main thrust will probably be into chemicals, which form the largest base of the new combine...
...Rome. Clem Stone, 34, is starving, having run through his G.I. checks and the patience of his wife abandoned back in the U.S. He has hocked his typewriter, and in any case has given up even the pretense of writing his novel, which was about the U.S. landing at Salerno. Another first novelist is at it again, the reader might well think, huffing and puffing and looking for metaphors...
Many military writers have tried to explain the Battle of Salerno, among them Naval Historian Samuel Eliot Morison and the battle commander, Mark Clark. But this book by Hugh Pond, former military correspondent of the London Daily Express, reconstructs the nine-day battle in all its vivid and confused detail...
...price of victory was high: 7,811 Allied casualties. Worse, the defense at Salerno revitalized the Germans, delighting Hitler and encouraging him to pour more German troops into Italy. What was expected to be a triumphal march north through a beaten Italy became a slogging, tortuous, year-long campaign that repeatedly stalled and finally sputtered to a stop just north of Florence, cost 350,000 Allied lives before it was over...