Word: salerno
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...Hospital, a long hospital train stood on the siding. Out of the hospital, walking, hobbling, on crutches, on stretchers, came the young wounded veterans of World War II. The men were just five days back in the U.S., just two weeks out of North Africa, veterans of Tunisia, Sicily, Salerno and Naples. The train would take them to Midwest Army hospitals, where they would be near home...
...Indiana, Republicans hoped that the shot in the arm that Navy Lieut. James Tucker, 35, got in the U.S. landing at Salerno would be a shot in the arm to Indiana GOPolitics. Six-foot, boyish Lieut. Tucker (now home on convalescent leave) once served as Indiana's Secretary of State, would make a hot and heroic candidate for U.S. Senator in 1944, if the Navy gives him a medical discharge...
...Stockport, England, slim, hard, bronzed Sergeant Henry ("Harry") Worsley returned home after two years at war. He had fought from El Alamein to Salerno, been twice wounded, won the Military Medal. He had two weeks' leave...
Under Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson appeared for the defense. "The War Department is proud of Canol," he declared. As for its exorbitant cost, "one might as well criticize the cost of capturing the Salerno bridgehead by stating that the land acquired was worth only a few dollars an acre...
Tony and his M-7 tank-destroyer crew hit the beach at Salerno with the American forces, and days later helped take Sorrento, knocking out three German tanks. Tony found his aging Aunt Theresa, but not his uncle. The Germans had killed him. Aunt Theresa cooked spaghetti for Tony, his crew and a U.S. correspondent. They agreed that nowhere but in Italy could such spaghetti be found. Aunt Theresa smiled and showed them the box it came in. The label read: Colucci's Famous Spaghetti. Manufactured in Brooklyn, U.S.A...