Word: volturno
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...target practice." The town's African population responded by burning cars and smashing shop windows, prompting retaliatory attacks by white residents. It was the fourth outbreak of violence in the region in recent years. Six Africans died two years ago in fighting in the coastal town of Castel Volturno. (Read "In Italy, Racial Tensions Explode into Violence...
...combat as a sergeant of Rommel's famed Afrika Korps. He had survived the German retreat from Sicily by swimming a mile to shore after his boat was sunk in the Strait of Messina, and had been badly wounded again and finally captured by U.S. forces near the Volturno River in Italy...
...Dallas attorney named Paul Douglas Lindsey heard of his arrest, immediately announced that Pabel had saved his life during the fighting on the Volturno, and offered to help him in any feasible way. Pabel, he said, had found him lying wounded in a ditch, had reassured him, and then-to keep from drawing U.S. artillery fire on the attorney's refuge-led his squad of Germans 100 yards away...
After Naples, Lang was with our men all through the bitter fighting along the Volturno. As the German barrage crept yard by yard along the river bank "three times soldiers I had talked with less than three minutes before were injured by artillery fire"-and he was in Bari last December when the Luftwaffe sank 17 Allied ships in "the costliest sneak attack since Pearl Harbor...
...blades, tractors hack out advance landing fields (see cut), push roads through the jungle and-in the Solomons-one armored giant even buried a dozen Japs in a pillbox that unprotected troops had been unable to approach (TIME, Dec. 20). Crawler tractors cleared banks, helped ford and bridge the Volturno River in Italy. Besides construction work, new-type tractors drag heavy artillery at more than 30 m.p.h.; others nudge landing barges off beaches and (with power winches attached) do all kinds of fabulous lifting and pulling jobs...