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Sicily to Munich. Between the war dance and the Broadway parade, the Thunderbirds followed a long and bloody trail of soldiering around the world. In World War II the 45th was a crack assault division. In eight campaigns, from Sicily to Munich, it made four landings (Sicily, Salerno, Anzio, the French Riviera), spent 511 days in action, suffered 20,993 casualties (second only to the 3rd Division). The Nazi army learned to respect and fear the men of the fast-stepping "Falcon" Division,* who overran 1,000 square miles of Sicily in one three-week action...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Proud Men | 5/3/1954 | See Source »

Admiral Earl Mountbatten, commander in chief of the British Mediterranean Fleet, took time off at Naples, adjusted his undersea fishing gear, dived into the Gulf of Salerno for a little subterranean exploration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 13, 1952 | 10/13/1952 | See Source »

...years ago, the police were arresting the chiefs of the neo-Fascist Movimento Sociale Italiano (M.S.I.); last week, in elections involving 40% of Italy's voters, the Fascists and their monarchist cronies made the largest gains of any coalition, captured Naples (Italy's third city), Bari, Foggia, Salerno, twelve out of 31 provincial councils and 21% of the vote-and emerged as the third party in Italy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Portrait of a Party | 6/9/1952 | See Source »

...Antonio Cassese, the local dentist, cried: "There will be no peace in Eboli until they give us the land, until they give us houses, until they give us schools for our children! . . ." Townspeople nodded agreement. The Ebolitani say: "Christ may have stopped at Eboli, but the money stopped at Salerno...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Where Christ Stopped | 5/26/1952 | See Source »

After that more letters came-first from Francavilla Fontana, later from Naples, Salerno, Milan, Bologna, Trieste. "You gotta cry," Francesco told his customers. "They're all alike. All in bad shape. I wonder, how could the authorities let this happen? But I can't make no distinguish . . ." Patiently, month after month, Francesco mailed out packages of food in clothing. Sometimes he sent cash-"whatever we can spare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IMMIGRATION: Frank's Barber Shop | 3/5/1951 | See Source »

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