GERMANS TRICKED ON VOLTURNO
NEW YORK, October 15. The first detachments of the Fifth Army forces crossed the Volturno without a shot being fired at them, says the Columbia Broadcasting System’s representative. in. a broadcast from Algiers. Allied guns opened up along a lengthy strip of the river bank and then concentrated on a single point. The Germans, thinking that the big attack was coming here, began heavy counter-fire. Meanwhile, from a point down-stream, Fifth Army forces began pouring across the river, and they continued to do so for about an hour without drawing any enemy fire.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 18, 16 October 1943, Page 5
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97GERMANS TRICKED ON VOLTURNO Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 18, 16 October 1943, Page 5
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