Word: salerno
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North and east from Salerno, the Fifth moved forward, battered at the mountain gateways to the flatlands around Naples...
...volcano rose a huge shroud of smoke over the port of Naples. In that city of 900,000, rising in tourist times like a white amphitheater from the blue sea, the Germans were dynamiting and burning. It was clear proof that the Wehrmacht had lost the Battle of Salerno, had now begun an earth-scorching evacuation of southern Italy's greatest port...
...Ultimate Job. The bruising melee on the beaches of Salerno had been hell for the men of the Fifth. It had been touch & go, as Winston Churchill said, "from day three to day seven." But hell for the men was a school for the generals...
Without benefit of surprise, at the fag end of vital fighter-plane range, they had come ashore, skillfully coordinated their sea, air and land power, taken stiff punish ment, given harder blows back. If the Fifth had failed at Salerno, the Eighth would have had a much tougher job. And Mark Clark's reputation would have suffered an eclipse...
...Italy is a road to the Reich. But it is a long road: 800 miles from Salerno to the Brenner Pass. The peninsula is wrinkled with mountains. As in Tunisia and Sicily, relatively small German units could hold the ridges, command the valleys and coastal defiles, give ground slowly and at a price...