Word: salerno
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...political or military, to turn such a development to account. Hasty conferences followed with some of the King's and the Marshal's emissaries. The armistice was signed, but its announcement was withheld to coincide with a proposed airborne invasion of Rome and the beachhead landing at Salerno. The Germans moved quickly. They prevented the airborne venture by disarming vastly superior numbers of Italians to whom the Allies had looked for help, then concentrated everything available at Salerno...
...Allies held Salerno, but they also had on their hands the King and Marshal Badoglio. The Italian fleet came over. Militarily the Allies gained some advantage by having Italian troops help out as dock workers, as railway and bridge guards. But the Allied command miscalculated when it expected the Italian armies -beaten, demoralized and wanting only to go home to their families-to be useful as combat troops. They, like the people of Italy, wanted only peace and food...
Moscow Conference. Subsequently, on Dec. 15, the U.S.-British-Russian-Gaullist Allied Control Commission (then called Advisory Council for Italy) recommended to the Allied military command that the Moscow decision should "promptly" be carried out, agreed on the Salerno-Bari line of demarcation, the three provisos. Reasons: the Allies always intended to grant Italian rule in areas sufficiently remote from the battle zone; they wanted to release AMG personnel for other duties; Russian and other criticism of AMG was too hot to ignore. Finally, said grey-haired, British Lieut. General F. N. Mason-MacFarlane, it was a good thing...
...Naples and the present battle areas, north of the Salerno-Bariline, and the Mediterranean bases of Lampedusa and Pantelleria remain under Allied rule...
About 1,400 San Antonians have been killed, wounded or are missing. Nearly half these were Latin Americans, chiefly Mexicans, who have proved among the best of U.S. combat troops. Six San Antonians were killed at Pearl Harbor, but Salerno was costliest. There the 36th (Texas) Division, including 1,000 San Antonians, spearheaded the beach attack...