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...Munich. Between the war dance and the Broadway parade, the Thunderbirds followed a long and bloody trail of soldiering around the world. In World War II the 45th was a crack assault division. In eight campaigns, from Sicily to Munich, it made four landings (Sicily, Salerno, Anzio, the French Riviera), spent 511 days in action, suffered 20,993 casualties (second only to the 3rd Division). The Nazi army learned to respect and fear the men of the fast-stepping "Falcon" Division,* who overran 1,000 square miles of Sicily in one three-week action. ("Don't you ever sleep...
...daughter of a New York industrialist-and an enthusiastic sailor. The young couple went to Europe on their honeymoon; Briggs bought a rip-snorting Alfa Romeo, but he was more interested in his six-meter yacht, which he had shipped over from Long Island Sound for racing on the Riviera...
...victorious breakthrough in the Po Valley, the Allies would drive towards Vienna . . . But Roosevelt and his counselors did not have the same vision of the political importance of this strategy, and the withdrawal . . . of several divisions from the Army of Italy for the landings on the French Riviera so weakened the Army that Northern Italy could not be liberated for eight months . . . When the collapse of German resistance finally occurred in the spring, it was too late: the Russian armies had occupied Vienna, Hungary and the Balkans, Tito was installed in Istria as far as Trieste, and in Italy Communism...
...Premier-husband's moderate salary into a fortune in millions, hundreds of fertile acres and a gleaming yacht. Senile Safsaf, as her husband was called, a onetime fellah who rose to boss Egypt's Wafd Party, blossomed out in Sulka ties, hired a valet, vacationed on the Riviera...
Died. Maria d'Annunzio, Princess of Monte Nevoso, 94, widow of Italy's famed Poet-Patriot Gabriele (Il Fuoco} d'Annunzio; in Gardone Riviera, Italy...