Word: seles
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Dates: during 1943-1943
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...battles in the British, U.S. and Canadian sectors had reached the U.S. Like the soldiers, the front-line correspondents saw only the shapes of their particular hells. Of the accounts which did arrive, the clearest told of the crisis in an American sector, near the juncture of the Sele and Galore Rivers, where Field Marshal Albert Kesselring's forces almost pushed...
TIME Correspondent Will Lang was with a U.S. regiment in that sector. Many of its officers and men were Oklahomans. The regiment was one of several units ordered to march inland, seize high ground commanding a key bridge on the Sele and forestall what finally happened-the German thrust which almost split the beachhead. Said the regiment's Colonel, explaining the orders to his battalion officers: "It's pretty far inland and we don't know exactly what the enemy's got in that area. But it must be urgent to get that high ground...
...early morning a German plane bombed the regiment, dispersed for two hours' sleep in the fields. Three wounded men were sent to the rear; the regiment marched on. By 6 a.m. Lieut. Colonel Earl Taylor's 3rd Battalion was near the bridge on the Sele...
...dusk two battalions with their artillery had been completely cut off, and another was in danger. One battalion, sadly thinned, was pulled back from the hills by the Sele. All were grouped in close defensive rings. The 105-mm. guns were turned around, faced the way the regiment had marched the night before. Only 15 rounds remained for each gun, and they were silent...
Somewhere in Italy Privates Albert Campbell and William McGovern were in a position that had been infiltrated by German tank formations. Their platoon was cut off. Mortar fire was falling near by and Nazi machine guns opened up. They waded the Sele River, hid out for a night and a day, then started cautiously in the direction of U.S. artillery fire. After that they...