Word: spezia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chief jumping-off place; it has large reception camps where the travelers are housed and fed until the night they crowd aboard a little tramp ship for the voyage to Palestine. Sometimes they leave from other, poorly organized ports. Last week 1,014 Jews were stranded at La Spezia on the Ligurian coast; they were resolved to sail aboard an old 750-ton wooden cargo boat, the Fede, jampacked with canvas cots in fantastic, seven-tier rows...
...General [Anton] Dostler was sentenced to death [TIME, Oct. 22] because he had ordered 15 O.S.S. men shot who were caught when trying to blow up a tunnel between Genoa and La Spezia. Surely every American found the verdict satisfactory...
When that occurred (by drowning, in the Gulf of Spezia, 1822), Shelley's second wife, Mary (the author of Frankenstein), was left penniless. For the sake of her small son, Percy Florence Shelley, the only one of their four children to survive the Italian climate or their father's theories of human happiness, she decided to go home and rehabilitate the Shelley name...
...mission was as risky as any the O.S.S. ever plotted. Fifteen U.S. soldiers of Italian descent were to slip ashore in rubber boats, 400 miles behind the German lines. On the main-line railway between Genoa and La Spezia, they were to blow up a tunnel which air attack had failed to seal. The mission ended in their death, March 26, 1944, before a Nazi firing squad...
Along the Ligurian coast Major General Edward Almond's task force, among them Negro and Japanese-American troops, captured Italy's chief naval base of La Spezia. Farther north, Genoa, Italy's first commercial port, was freed...