Word: tyrrhenian
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...begun to waver. The retreat was resumed, in somewhat better order. Seven Allied columns went after them, en route for the next major Allied objectives. One was Ancona, one of the finest ports on the Adriatic, where ships to Dalmatia and Yugoslavia could find good harbor. Another was the Tyrrhenian port of Leghorn, already echoing to German demolition charges...
Occasionally the enemy turned, like a harried animal, to snap at his pursuers. On lateral Highway 74, from the Tyrrhenian coast to Lake Bolsena, the Germans held a line for three days until it was cracked in three places by General Mark W. Clark's Fifth Army. Grosseto, opposite Elba (see below), fell to the Fifth. With it went a major military airfield about 70 miles from Florence. In 38 days the Fifth had advanced almost 150 miles...
...German right was scrambling up the Italian boot so rapidly that the pursuing Allies-making 15 miles a day along the flat Tyrrhenian coastal plain-had trouble keeping contact. The German center in the hills and the left along the Adriatic, falling back more slowly, faced dire peril. Through the flagging right the Allies might knife suddenly eastward, surround the rest of the Germans...
...revitalized Allied force along the Tyrrhenian coast first rounded up 2,000 dazed, stranded Germans at the mouth of the Tiber, sent them to the rear. They raced almost 40 miles more, occupied one of Rome's ancient ports, Civitavecchia. Eighty miles north of Rome-25 miles ahead of Allied land patrols-Allied minesweepers poked into the harbor of San Stefano, found that it too had been evacuated...
Midway between the Tyrrhenian and the Adriatic the Germans seemed firmer. Mines, demolitions, difficult country, stubborn rear guards impeded pursuit of the long, weary German columns winding up the rutted mountain roads. But General Sir Oliver Leese's Eighth Army slogged steadily at their heels, captured Avezzano, virtually cleared the lateral highway from Rome to the Adriatic...