Word: salerno
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...soldiers in Europe, war's end came variously, and at various times. For some it ended long ago-at Dunkirk, at Salerno, in Normandy, in the Ardennes, at many an unsung roadside. But for each survivor the war ended on the day when the prisoners' cage was opened or the field ahead no longer spat death...
...good, battle-tested officers, Hap Arnold had no trouble finding a successor for Ira Eaker as head of the Mediterranean Allied Air Force. His choice: husky, bald-headed Lieut. General John K. (Uncle Joe) Cannon, whose Twelfth Air Force in Italy had blasted the way for Allied forces from Salerno to Milan...
...custom of describing symptoms and treatment in verse persisted until books were common; tests in verse were easy to remember. Some 12th-Century medical advice from Italy's School of Salerno...
...Admiral Hewitt & Co. who have by no means gone unmentioned in TIME (July 26, 1943), rate a 15-gun salute for good work in five tough amphibious operations: the landings in Africa, Sicily, at Salerno, Anzio, Southern France. Possessor of one of the U.S. Navy's most brilliant mathematical minds, Admiral Hewitt is one of the prime organizers of U.S. amphibious warfare...
...agony a soldier can endure. Belden believes that the U.S. soldier is the best trained he has ever seen, "but no one seems to have taken the proper trouble to introduce [him] to the uncertainty of war. . . . Men study maps and practice jumping off landing boats; but when . . . a Salerno comes along, they fly out of their boats into the uncertain darkness ahead and refuse to jump, or jump ashore and [then] jump back . . . and have to be exhorted by chaplains to advance into the unknown...