Word: valino
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When General Juan Yague's troops reached the 600-foot-high hill of Montjuich commanding Barcelona's harbor they saw a white flag flying from the fortress. When General Garcia Valino's soldiers climbed the summit of Tibidabo, on the west, and looked down upon the city gleaming in brilliant sunshine, they saw white sheets, towels and Rebel red & gold bunting flying from windows and housetops...
...there are Leftist chiefs like Enrique Lister, leader of Madrid's famous 5th Regiment, nucleus of the People's Army, in charge of the defense of Catalonia, switched recently to the Valencia front. Generalissimo Franco's most trusted henchmen now are Generals Miguel Aranda, Rafael Garcia Valino and José Varela, each in charge of one of the three prongs of the Valencia drive. Last week General Varela's Castilian Army Corps won a signal victory by capturing heavily-fortified Mora de Rubielos. The Rightist Armies continued in a swift advance down a steep grade, capturing...
This most professional drive was executed by having Rightist General Garcia Escamez hotly engage a large Leftist defending force in frontal attack, while Rightist Generals Garcia Valino and Aranda swept around the Leftists' wings, met behind them and then swept on toward the Mediterranean in a 16-mile-wide offensive. Twenty miles of coast, from the outskirts of San Carlos de la Rápita to Peñiscola were in Rightist hands by week...
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