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in a new drive in the center of tl — :- ♦tOW£com Ha?I T I pro]5th, 8th Score Gains as Foeracesiveted;edonsli-rlycedith.ne)IIS196ir-p'sith2t-)tO•ge a is ad ivend:erusALLIED FORCE HEADQUAR-TERS, July 9—The 5th and 8th Armies forged out new gains yesterday In their two-pronged drivetoward Florence in the face ot. desperately stiff Nazi resistance which was. notable for its increased artillery and mortar fire. The 8th tightened its steel ring around Arezzo, 36 miles southwest of Florence on the maiu route. Highway 69, while tanks and infantrymen of the 5th pushed forward in the sector south of Pog-miles south of Florence, gibonsi. a big road junction 22 Fighting frantically for time in which to complete the defenses of their Gothic line, the Nazis fiercely counterattacked 8th Army positions south of Arezzo, but ekch one was repelled handily:Some seven miles southwest of Arezzo, a short-range battle continued at Monte Castiglion Mag-gio, with the enemy on the reverse slopes. There three savage counterattacks were started,'and hostile defensive lire bore aown promptly on all Allied attempts to move forward.,Five miles southwest ot Arezzo, 8th Army infantrymen ran into fanatic resistance, and forward companies were grimly hanging o.i to their positions binder withering mortar fire.Un the 5th Army’s right tianic, French troops which occupied Casole di Val Delsa on the night of July 5-6 moved north of the town to within a mile and a halt of Poggibonsi, the next strongly-held town on Highway 2. American tank units have been fighting with the French forces since the start of the offensive.Nearer the Tyrrhenian. 5th Army infantrymen look the high ground just north of Castellina but tell(Continued on I*age 4)anc gav vict T sea big nad AmpailzerAmwespertoo1lautanseabeebef1tintakterCmresmeCadiethiinianthticghstibethlt;in(micolfriJTEflgiterfoiboi
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Oran Stars and Stripes
Oran, Oran, DZ
Mon, Jul 10, 1944
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