Word: salerno
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Pietro Badoglio's regime got the strongest shot in the arm it has so far received from the Allies. The Allied Military Government withdrew from Sicily, Sardinia, and the Italian mainland south of the Salerno-Bari line...
Lang got his baptism of fire in Italy the second day of Salerno, when he found himself the only correspondent with an American regiment that was completely surrounded and cut off from the coast by superior German forces...
Among them was a second lieutenant who said: "As soon as I was safe I remembered I had left the pictures of my wife and parents on the other side. I had carried the pictures through Salerno and San Vittore, and when I realized they were gone I sat down on the bank and cried...
...enemy was fooled. When the invasion forces swept ashore some 30 miles below Rome, they met no opposition. Three crack German divisions which might have produced another Salerno had been ingeniously lured south, to save the sagging Gustav Line...
Sight Unseen. In Buffalo, James O. Meyers bought a roll of film just to humor a business acquaintance, discovered when he finally got around to borrowing a projector that one scene showed his son at Salerno...