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...under German mortar fire, he picked a careful way behind stone walls up the limestone and pumice heights of the Sorrentine peninsula. From the ridge the patches of chestnut forest tumbled into the brown Campania plain. The General looked in the direction of the ashen ruins of Pompeii, the lava-scarred cone of Vesuvius. Beyond the volcano rose a huge shroud of smoke over the port of Naples. In that city of 900,000, rising in tourist times like a white amphitheater from the blue sea, the Germans were dynamiting and burning. It was clear proof that the Wehrmacht...
...Salerno? When Lieut. General Mark Wayne Clark's troops landed at Salerno, the troops of the Eighth Army had been in Italy for six days. They held about 750 sq. mi, of Italy's Calabrian peninsula and they were moving steadily northward and eastward. The British V Corps was about to take the port of Taranto, secure the lower Adriatic coast. German mines and booby traps delayed these troops, but the delays were not serious. Holding southern Calabria and moving into Apulia, the British held very little of Italy. But that little was secure, it was open...
...because the Germans did not fight there. They would have been there, fighting hard, if they had not had to prepare for landings farther north, and the Allies might be struggling for their first toehold on Italy's tip instead of holding the Salerno area and the Sorrento peninsula. 20 mi. below Naples. The fact that the Germans expected the landing at Salerno cut no military ice; they presumably knew that the Salerno beaches, about as far north as the Allies could land and still be within fighter cover from Sicily, were logical points of attack...
...Irrawaddy River. Allied-trained and equipped Chinese troops, based in India, skirmished with Jap troops along the North Burma frontier, forced their retreat and destroyed their lines of communication. Reports came of British submarine operations as far south as the Strait of Malacca, between Sumatra and the Malay Peninsula...
...this might be a feint; it was conceivable that Lord Louis Mountbatten, Commander of the Southeast Asia theater, might launch his major blow, not at Burma, but at the Malay Peninsula. It was conceivable that last week's threats were a nerve war. Lord Louis, still in London a fortnight ago, could not prepare a major campaign with a twist of his wrist. An invasion of the thick, mountainous jungle terrain of Burma called for a major effort, as the British had already found...