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...desperate men gathered about the map tables at German supreme headquarters the reports must have been coming in like hammer blows to the heart. Now their Italian line collapsed. Two of their last, best armies, driven from the Apennines, were scurrying northward toward the Po River and Lombardy's plains. Bologna, pivot of German resistance, was gone...
There was no time to celebrate. Northward the German armies were stretched out on the roads, vulnerable to attack. Brazilian Expeditionary Corps troops and U.S. units swung by Bologna, bypassed the road center of Modena and drove to the Po. Overhead Allied flyers roared, flashed down to strafe the marching enemy; in one day 1,700 Nazi vehicles were destroyed or damaged...
...Batted for Closky in the ninth. HARVARD ab r h po a e Forte, 2b 4 0 1 3 5 0 O'Neill, rf 4 0 1 1 1 1 Coppinger, 3b 3 0 0 1 0 1 Allen, lf 3 1 1 0 0 0 Wallace, p 4 1 1 1 4 1 Conlon, cf 3 0 0 1 0 0 Closky, ss 2 0 0 2 3 0 Fava, 1b 3 0 1 11 0 1 Lackey, c 3 1 0 4 0 0 Ayers, lf 1 0 0 0 0 0 *Lindeworth...
...McCreery's Eighth Army, soldiers of five different nations in the van, struck from the Senio River across the Santerno and then the Sillaro. The Germans gave ground carefully, holding village strongpoints until the last. By week's end the Eighth had driven farther into the Po basin and was reaching to link up with the Americans below Bologna...
...Twelfth (Tactical) Air Force, Yale's 1923 All-America fullback; in the take-off crash of a plane returning him to the U.S. for discharge (over-age); in Italy. He received the Legion of Merit last December for his famed "Operation Mallory Major," which cut 22 of 24 Po River bridges...