European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 22, 1966, Darmstadt, Hesse Leu Palbo i Tol reminder of Anglo Ion dirt it whole Wolt front hoi been vim up Ogorin. Steel Toto us r a Braaton. A fac to Sass became Iem Lunf Convoy runt were Ante to la a i we of various loads had seen 4 seven Liberty imn emptied Hal. Gen. Troy Middle ton s 4mh ins i was ashore Tad a. Ton. Emem n. Harmon s lit army div we rapidly building up in position. On the Jagm at in. Ike allies Azeved eat to Law area Mlatek Oaly i meet m German by Faery Balta Loas do to Aad Well equipped Ike attacks tatted. Two Complete master Bat tails As were Arr evaded my Eye ared almost 3.809 american servicemen died in the Anglo beachhead and another were wounded. Many of those who died Are burled today la round taken by the re div during the Battle near the sadly Rome american cemetery and memorial outside Nettuno. Us cemetery was established in the midst of death h was first used Jan. M. 1h4. While the Battle was gaining intensity. Altogether of america7 fighting Han Are there Al rest amid us rat log cypresses and Oaks beneath Canna fit tended Rasa and gleaming White Eraa Aas or stars of David. A Broad expand of rat Rumity Green Grasa leads from the Entrance of the cemetery to us Monument a White Structure of roman travertine quarried few Miles East of Roma at Tyvoll. Hunk Normal gardens banter the Mon a Eta Stitth us maw of us i Acton engraved in mar-1i to saw Kate of the Structure a i Mas of Ute Beavens la sculptured Mil Lam Abaft Tow. In us other we Otibe Monument to Kumim Witk Bro axe Relief maps a taling us invasions of icily. Ando and Salerno. The maps Tell the Story to Brm a ass is los 1 what Happa Imd at. Ai us Mitrano to a cemetery if a Plattor he a. With Mortt it u and to Tania. Neuter. From All we Hare a regular Matt of More than a dozen Laid a Ca Rauker As he watered us Raa. Lovely Bare not really there Are always Slatton Woomin to. And. Ready Ibert f to much to do. -s.b. Ill Al Kleri to la on 1mm. A Dart Eit abutted a 91k army hew a Arlen a Ike beachhead Aad a feb. I Alexader made a Tritt. He Alexander a kind wrote Chi Chi later but t am afraid he i not a lend. My head will probably full in the Baket. The inv Aalon Wai Italy the Ith army held the bulk of the pen Uniula to the Adriatic Clark i 9th army a a plot Between Anglo and the Western Ilde of the guitar line. I corp dug in for a defensive War. Feb. U a the greatest Effort by the to do Lodge their foe at Gen. Eberhard Mackensen. Commander of the 14th army hurled a a Lamoni at the beachhead. The Al Lei held but at Ter Rible cot Hilpi of both the Brill in and . Navlett poured in Vitant Dre into enemy and. As they had frequently Harfore often caved the Day. On feb a Lum hours alter i corps had won an outstanding defensive Battle. I mucus was Oul Clark could no longer resist the pressure. Tru Rotl stepped up to the Corpe Post at the germans made their final Muter Effort against the american Section on feb. K. Rawl Scotts 1st army. Ird div and 1 49th in met Ibe thrust led by n tanks and blunted it in heavy rain both armies fought mud and weather until the fighting round to a close. It waa neither a Victory nor defeat for either aide. There could be no Hope new for a break out from the Ando wrote Churchill sadly. Concentrated to that tiny piece of real estate actually shrunk from Ita greatest growth were Kojm a and British troops plus thousands of vehicles. Space was at a Premium Ernie Pyle wrote the space problem is almost As bad As one observer Aid shortly after a lilt to the Beach head the Plain looked More like no nun s land on the Western front during world War i than did even the most slowed up and beaten Down atoll in the Pacific Tiik Kao hiked a Aal a. Or fettered Berh api from Ike German Palal of View. The Naples Ante aptly Raa was still Perl Lon Aad at Fol eel skips. Advances toward Rome were a Cesared i Yards if Al All. Toss Well remade Ike corps to us image Aad waited Fer Ike fireworks t on May 11 they did. Along the Custar Une. Clark s 5th army and u. Gen. Sir Oliver Leue s eth army went on the offensive. The French expeditionary corps got a Bridgehead across the Karl Llano and a valiant polish division stormed Monte. Cassino and finally took the Heap of rubble after fearsome losses. The Allied armies drove northward As the germans yielded slowly stubbornly. Rulle situation to the South dictated the i action to the North and As the Gus Lav Une was broached. I corps got ready to move. Al an hour before Dawn May a the corps attacked. With pin print support fire from naval cruisers the allies moved out slowly Al first but gradually picking up peed. Early on the morning of May 19. The Point of to All was reached. I. Francis x. Buckley leading a re con patrol from the South bumped into diet. Ben Sousa heading some engineers from the North. Where m hell do you think you re going Sousa is re ported la have asked. Saroto said Buckley. Boy you be made it a was told. But i was t Over. Switching plane Clark sent Trucott i Trotters to named because of a special forced Anarch of the general s at the a Baa luus. Where us German defenders Wen still holding on. It look tour Days to Root them out and heartache by us hour. The to ump waa we. A Law a gaunt was greek to. La tees us week vice rps Eaf Ferett my Case Ahtes. The germans Sefl ered tee is Ike were aet Radami they Rea Saaed Iber Mac Ksn resistance. On june 4, in the midst of a sunny Day a patrol from Ibe my entered Rome. The germans Wen slip Ping oat from the other Side of the Eter Nal City in silence the liberators were marching in amid cries of Welcome through he ports Maggiore. And it was Dune the lightning thrust that was to have broken the German grip of the Middle of the italian Penin Sula never happened Tail crucial dlr Sion had Hern held in Luly and Oul of the a russian it took i weeks and the Triumph was told in letters inches High to Newt supers around the world Tor one whole Day. On june im4. Something else got the top play. If stars and stems
