Evening star., 1943-10-15
Italy
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basSo after embiJtered street
fighting in the outskirts and in
the town itself.
tThe broadcast said four in
fantry and one tank divisions un-
der Gen. Clark were attacking
along the VolturnoD
Nowhere was the 9Th Army meet
ing heavy and sustained resistance
although the Germans fought q
brief, sharp battle before relinquish-
ing the ground overlooking Casa
calenda.
Fifth Army headquarters said both
tanks and tank destroyers-big high
velocity antitank guns on self
propelled mounts-were Joining the
infantry in the furious drive across
the fatlands crisscrossed by small,
still-hooded Watercourses north of
the Volturno and into the heights
beyond which rise to 1000 feet.
Engineers were throwing every
sort of bridge" across the Volturno
for this flood Of men and material,
although the assault forces east Of
ShDud NblC dbit w NdNC lilC Sll Cdlll
almost at will.
Heavy fighting occurred around
the town of Ciazzo, one mile north
of the river where it makes a north
ern bend 8 miles east of Capua.
Menace Left Wing.
But there, as we'll as nearer Capua.
American troops had gained a toe
hold on the high ground and
menaced the German left wing after
gaining control of a road paralleling
the river
The British 6-mile breakthrough
TO Casacalcnda also resulted in the
capture of the towns of Santa Ella,
II miles east of Campobasso and
6 miles southwest of Colletorto;
Monacilioni, 9 miles southwest of
Colletcrto. and Toro, miles north
east of Glldone. Gildone is miles
southeast of Campobasso.
"a Radio France broadcast said
the Germans were reported to
have ordered evacuation of civil
ians from the entire western
coast of Italy north of Ostia IN
anticipation of possible further
Allied landings.
(Ostia is at the mouth of the
Tiber about 10 miles southwest of
Romeo
Fortresses Attack Terni.
The German ability to rush REIN
forcements from north of Rome was
curtalled, meanwhile, by Flying For
tresses which attacked the important
rail junction Of Terni, so miles north
of Rome, in Central Italy.
The freight yards at Terni, june
tiCn of two electric rail lines and a
steam line. we're spouting flames and
columns of smoke as the Fortresses
completed their rNns. The antiair-
craft fire was light. but 35 Messer-
schmitts and Focke- -Wulfs gave bat
tie and two of these were shot down.
This was the second heavy raid on
Terni, the first having been Au-
gust II.
Liberators as well as FortreSSes at
tackled Adriatic coastal railways
leading to the 9th Armys front,
pounding the railway bridge at
Giulianova, 20 miles north of Pescara,
and the railway line at Fiano. Ro-
mano and Antrodoco.
Warhawks and fighter -bombers
also hammered trains north of
Pescara, destroying three lines of
trucks, and hit three locomotives
and many rail cars near rosetta delli
Abruzzi, where heavy German trans
port movements have been reported
in recent days.
Motor Transport Bombed.
Motor transport in the Chieti area,
just south of Pescara, also was
bombed and strafed.
On the 5th Army front fighter
bombers attacked the village of
Formicola, a few miles north of
Pignataro.
Argos, on the Grecian Pelopen-
nesus, felt the fury of the mounting
aerial attack when American
Mitchells escorted by Lightnings
blasted the air1eld again Bombs
pitted the runways and fell among
27 parked planes. On the way home
the Lightnings intercepted 10 to Is
Messerschmitts and shot down two
of them in flames.
The surprising weakness of the
enemy in the air was apparent over
the entire battle area, and only two
Allied planes were lost. They &C
counted for a total of four enemy
planes.