Word: salerno
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...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...
Fighting under Major General Troy Middleton, the 45th overran 1,000 square miles in three weeks. German prisoners complained: "Don't you Americans ever sleep?" In September, alongside the 36th (a National Guard division from Texas), the 45th landed at Salerno to begin one of the war's most grueling campaigns. Another National Guard division, the 34th (from Iowa and Minnesota), helped hold that beachhead...
...score of the 82nd's transport planes. All but one battalion landed in the wrong spot; skeptics wanted to write finis to the whole idea. But the 82nd persisted. It showed what it could do when it moved 250 miles in eight hours to join the attack on Salerno. When U.S. troops marched into Naples three weeks later, the cocky 82nd...