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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...
...Ligurian coast Lieut. General Lucian K. Truscott's Fifth Army thrust for the old naval-base town of La Spezia. Working a pincers, the 442nd Regiment (Japanese-Americans) and the 473rd Regiment (Negroes) cleared enemy defenses around the famed marble center of Carrara. Italian Partisan units swarmed out of caves and quarries to help the troops capture the village...
...Cassino, had really wrecked the Line. From the foothills above Bologna they were only 80 miles across the plain from Verona and Padua. The German troops retiring from Rimini, on the eastern end of the Gothic Line, and those holding the western end of the Line near La Spezia now had to race northward or be cut off, for Verona and Padua are their only ways...