Word: corsica
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...divisions were tied up in Italy, the Nazis would have to divert supplies to them which might otherwise go to the invasion coast. Likewise, Kesselring must be prepared for amphibious landings in the north. (Berlin radio fran tically forecast that Allied troops were poised in Corsica and Sardinia for such a purpose.) In the Anzio sector, stiff Prussian Colonel General Eberhard von Mackensen planned to meet another Fifth Army attack on the Germans' flank...
Irene Bordoni, super-Frenchy musicomedy veteran (Hitchy Koo, Little Miss Bluebeard, Naughty Cinderella), was the new chanteuse of Manhattan's La Vie Parisienne nightclub. The fiftyish, Corsica-born brunette sang favorites new & old (old favorites: If You Could Care for Me, Let's Do It, Do it Again), described her hairdo as the American Push-"Poosh all my hair on a other side...
...liberated Corsica, the French Navy symbolized a nation's renaissance. Side-by-side under the Tricolor, busily disembarking invasion troops and harassing the Germans, sailed the cruiser Jeanne d'Arc from Guadeloupe, the destroyers Le Fantasque and Le Terrible from Dakar, the destroyers Le Fortuné and Le Basque from Alexandria, the submarines Arétuse and Perle from Toulon...
...chilly night last February a French submarine from Algiers sneaked through the Mediterranean, surfaced in Corsica's Ajaccio harbor long enough to let Captain Colonna d'Istria, young scion of an old Corsican family, slip ashore...
...Fifth Army and Britain's flower, the Eighth, threatened Germany from the south. Sardinia and Corsica were stepping stones to southern France and the Rhone Valley route...