Word: terracina
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Lieut. Francis Xavier Buckley, a carrot-thatched engineer from Philadelphia, was tooling his jeep northward from Terracina along the coastal road, accompanied by a private. When they came to a wrecked bridge near Borgo Grappa, they got out and started to walk, escorted by a flock of politely curious Italians on bicycles. At 7:31 Buckley met a force moving south from the Anzio beachhead - Captain Benjamin Harrison Souza of Honolulu and his platoon of engineers. The captain and lieutenant stared at each other...
...freshness and vigor" to the fact that casualties were immediately replaced by fresh troops to maintain the corps at full strength. Later it was announced that among the reinforcements were the U.S. 85th and 88th Divisions-not only battlegreen but entirely composed of draft levies. They distinguished themselves at Terracina...
Nearly all the Germans had pulled out. They were gone, too, from Gaeta. The troops, watched by Lieut. General Mark Clark (who narrowly escaped being blown up by an exploding land mine), then pushed on into Itri and Fondi. This week U.S. patrols fought into Terracina, were thrown out, waited to fight their way back when the main bodies came...
...already secure, Allied patrols were halfway to Rome, tanks and Bren gun carriers were ashore, Allied airmen controlled the skies. If the Germans planned a strong counterattack, no hint of it had come in the first, crucial 48 hours. Instead, Berlin reported new Allied landings at Gaeta and Terracina, just behind the German defense lines...
Equally typical was the Italian Bishop of Terracina, who in a vibrant pastoral letter to his flock declared: "We ought most fervently to address our prayers to the God of Hosts that he may deign to bless the officers and soldiers and crown their sacrifice and heroism with complete victory. We should particularly pray for the return of the holy places and especially the Cenacle and the Holy Sepulchre, which will receive the veneration due to them only when the flag of Catholic and Fascist Italy flies above them...