Word: salerno
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...after Jack Belden was wounded during the first fighting at Salerno, Calhoun's long-time knowledge of Italy seemed to make him the logical man to replace Belden. And with veteran Harry Zinder still on the job in the Middle East, we lost no time rushing Calhoun back to Italy...
...territory inhabited by 8,000,000 people. The timetable had improved over the last one in Sicily, where the Allies needed 38 days to conquer 10,000 square miles. They were one-third the long way up Italy's boot, well on the way to Rome. Around Salerno, the hard-fighting Fifth had lost nearly 10,000 killed, wounded and missing, about equally divided between Americans and British. The cost for so large an advantage might have been much more...
...British units. It was the first U.S. Army of World War II activated abroad. It had trained long and earnestly for seven months in Africa, and some of its units had been tested in Sicily. It had received its final temper in seven days of shock and fire at Salerno. The Fifth had been organized in North Africa. As its Commander in Chief, Mark Clark had military jurisdiction over 225,000 sq. mi. of North African soil. He established headquarters in the vacated Ècole des Jeunes Filles at Oujda, in French Morocco, a town of 35,000 (less than...
...give each soldier versatility. Mark Clark did not believe in overdone ultraspecialization. The quality of his teachings attracted visitors. Many a soldier of Lieut. General George Patton's Seventh Army got his final polish in General Clark's classes. And when the Fifth embarked for the Salerno beaches, it had been graduated cum laude from the toughest of training camps...
...Sicily Monty's men had held the bloody hinge at Catania while the U.S. Seventh swept across and around the island. British and Canadian casualties had been 31,158, American 7,445. In southern Italy, the British presumably had suffered little. But in the first week at Salerno, the Americans had 3,497 killed, wounded or missing-low by Russian standards, high in proportion to the numbers involved...