Word: sardinia
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...divisions were tied up in Italy, the Nazis would have to divert supplies to them which might otherwise go to the invasion coast. Likewise, Kesselring must be prepared for amphibious landings in the north. (Berlin radio fran tically forecast that Allied troops were poised in Corsica and Sardinia for such a purpose.) In the Anzio sector, stiff Prussian Colonel General Eberhard von Mackensen planned to meet another Fifth Army attack on the Germans' flank...
...Armada. "It is my aim," he wrote, "that the King should remain at peace with everyone, in order that one day he may be in a position to make war on those who may not wish to be his friends." Meanwhile Alberoni shipped a Spanish army against Austrian-held Sardinia and Sicily...
...opportunists still in office in Apulia tried to stop the meeting by decreeing that visitors to Bari must have special health permits to enter the city. The meeting, held nevertheless, received its answer a few days later; the Allies turned over new and additional parts of liberated Italy, including Sardinia and Sicily, to the control of the Emanuele-Badoglio Government...
Bashing in the Blackout. Best prospect developed by the tournament was the Air Forces' Perry Bryson, a heavyweight Texan from Sardinia who had never boxed before. In his second round against the Fifth Army's Cecil Shumway of Dallas, Tex., Bryson landed a terrific punch...
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...