Word: salerno
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...world a great war. Twenty-five years ago the ambulances were rolling along the hard-surfaced driveways of Walter Reed Hospital, bringing the men out of the foreign valleys-from St. Mihiel, the Meuse, the Somme. Today the ambulances roll again, bringing young men from other valleys-from Nicosia, Salerno, Kiska, Guadalcanal...
...Hard Way. The Allied high command had launched its invasion of Italy with the hope of thwarting any major German stand below Rome. But the time table had been disrupted at Salerno. There, by General Sir Harold Alexander's admission (TIME, Nov. 1), the Germans had upset the Fifth Army's plan to sweep across the peninsula, pinch off southern Italy. Other factors had further slowed the Allied advance...
...What had been Allied expectations? The General stepped up to the map with a wooden pointer. The plan was a bold one. It called for the Fifth Army to cut across Italy from Salerno and thereby cut off the Germans facing the Eighth Army in the south. The German, a very good soldier who takes a little time to make up his mind but then acts quickly, whipped two divisions from the Eighth's front and threw them in, with two other divisions, at Salerno. For a time the situation was very dangerous. The Allies turned on the whole...
...Later, riding back, he met some field officers. "Hit 'em hard, boys," he said, "damn hard!" His jeep passed a signpost giving the kilometers to Rome: 192 (120 mi.). "That's not so far," he commented. "I remember seeing the first sign to Naples after landing at Salerno. It read 105 kilometers. We made it all right. Just as the boys of the Fifth Army will make Rome...
...zero hour. Down to the bank hurried British and American infantry. They waded, swam, paddled and chugged across. Those who got over and clawed up the steep north bank, and those who fell by the way, had taken their hardest punishment since Salerno. They had given punishment, too, and behind them the tough engineers could now thrust bridges for jeeps, tanks and big guns...