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Po^es Seixe Key (Port On AdriaticADVANCED AFHQ, July 19-, U. S. infantry and tankmen. Closely supported by Yank artillery. today crowned a wide flanking movement in the Ligurian foothills with the capture oi -ueg-norn. Italy's third largest pore.At the other end of the 13 O-milc Italian front, Polish troops of General Sir Oliver Deese s 8th Army matched the American success with the seizure of Ancona, key Adriatic harbor.Capture ol Leghorn ended a battle which began when the Americans forced the Cecina River line. At one time, Nazi Field Marshal Albert von Kessclring had elements of 11 division defending the city.Until yesterday when the Americans oroke through to the oanks of the Arno River at Ponteciera, the advance was measured ia yards. American artillery gave infantrymen close support in knocking out the pillboxes, guns and mobile weapons that ringed the city. Two days ago, U. S. troops were firmly established on tho hills above Leghorn and ready for the final act that came todayENEMF LOSSES HEAVYThe Germans lost 2,500 prisoners and much equipment before the city. Leghorn itself, a town of 125,000, was oadiy wrecked oy the Allied airmen and German sappers. Bet ore the war. Had a port, capacity of 17,500 tons dailv 25 power cranes and 21 warehouses.The original American breakthrough to capture Pontedera and slice enemy lines between Florence and the coast was extended rapidly to the east and the west. The Americans met bitter opposition out continued to roll the enemy back everywhere.U. B. troops poured into the Arno Valley on either side of the axis of the main advance to smash outposts of the Gothic line and move up the road to Pisa. Press reports placed American vanguards five miles from Pisa, ancient center of culture, 12 miles northeast of Leghorn.The Germans were forced to givo up Ancona when the Poles slashed to the coast west of the port in a (Conttnued on page 4
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Mediterranean Stars and Stripes
Naples, Naples, IT
Thu, Jul 20, 1944
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