The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-13
New Battle Rages
 In Naples Sector
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day. About 90 to 100 enemy planes were encountered and eight were shot down. The Allies lost two.
 Allied military experts were inter- eSted in the Nad announcement that Marshal Erwin Rommel, who was driven out of Africa, has taken charge of German forces in northern Italy and expected hi into super wise the holding of an escape cor- ridor northward as he is an escape artist.
 Today's communique from head quarters of Gen. Dwight D. Eisen- hover emprasized the furious na- ture of the fighting around Sal erna, where some positions had changed hands many times.
 The Germans appeared to hold high ground just inland from the Gulf Of Salerno, where their artil. lery commanded the roads through the hills.
 Allied airplanes bombed Castel- nuovo road junction, presumably to prevent reinforcements from com ing into the Salerno area from the northeast.
 "very heavy fighting continues in the area of the Fifth Army at Sa- lerno," the communique said.
 The Eighth Army's capture of Crotone. a thriving little seaport in peace time with a population of 9,700, brought the British and Can- adian troops almost to the southern rim of the Gulf of Taranto after an advance from Catanzaro, which fell only 24 hours earlier.
 The port was found in good con- dition. the communique said, and the Eighth Army was advancing farther north along the whole front.
 Little or no enemy resistance is being encountered. but extensive demolitions are causing some delay" 1t added.
 British Build
 The British also continued to build up rapidly their new bridge head on the Italian heel. stretch ing from Taranto on the northwest corner of the Gulf of Taranto to Brindisi, on the Adriatic coast. Here, too, resistance was light and the small German forces pushed back.
 It seemed apparent that the Ger mans were fighting only delaying action, and sometimes not even botheYing to do that, in southern Italy, while the bulk of their forces battled bitterly to hold the Amer ican Fifth Army under Lieutenant General Mark W. Clark south of Naples.
 Battoipaglia, IA miles southeast of Salerno, changed hands several times after the British first stormed into 1t three days ago, delayed front dispatches said, and it was noteworthy that Allied headquar- ] ters have not yet announced its 1 capture.
 The Germans were throwing tanks, artillery and mechanical in- fantry units into increasingly heavy counter-attacks. Wherever the Americans threatened an advance. the Germans brought up waves of planes and turned loose whitening artillery barrage.
 William Stoneman, one of the American correspondents with the Fifth Army, wrote in a dispatch:
 Naples Uncertain
 Until the situation clears up, 1t would be premature to take any, thing for granted about Naples. The Germans In this area are in better shape than those we met in Sicily and they are fighting stealthiiy and with great stamina"
 Nevertheless, front reports made 1t clear that the Allies had slic- ceeded in establishing a bgidehead covering virtually the whole duit of saIeTno a distance of 26 to 50 miles.
 American and British troops, along with huge masses of supplies and armament, continued to pour ashore from . ceassless flow of land Ing craft.
 Already more material has been landed tn the HaleTno area than was taken to Sicily and ct least as many men have been put ashere. lPgenldent Roosevelt announced lJ a lreslde chat July 2e that the initial Allied assault force on Sicily involved 100000 men and 5000 shlpsJ
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