Word: brenner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bribed German guard and romped into the ranks of an American battalion. A few moments later he and the Americans raced up the Alpine road again to picturesque Itter Castle. There, waiting to be liberated, was a batch of Hitler's most prized captives. Near the Brenner Pass and in southern Germany U.S. troops released others. Some of the freed...
Behind these armored needles lacing up the German shroud, the Allies tidied and mopped up. Regensburg, the Ratisbon where Napoleon won a battle and a wound in the heel; Augsburg, 95 miles from the Brenner Pass; Bremen in the north, Germany's second largest seaport, all fell within the week...
Helping prepare for the spring were Twelfth Air Force medium bombers, pounding the Brenner Pass supply route. Allied officers estimated that recently it took Kesselring ten days to move a single division through the pass under Allied attack...
...that rate the General will be at Brenner Pass by the time you receive this...
Three days after the battle's beginning, picked U.S. bombardiers blew a 4O-ft. hole in the Avisio rail viaduct on the Brenner Pass line. Presumably the 75 daily trainloads of supplies which the Nazis had been sending into Italy over this key route would be stopped, at least temporarily...