Naples ’44

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Albanella

Albanella
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Background

Albanella is a town and municipality in the province of Salerno in the Campania region of south-western Italy. It is 51 kilometres (32 mi) from the city of Salerno.

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In Naples ’44

The rail station just south of the Sele where Fifth Army HQ — and the parasitically attached section — sits during the battle for the beachhead; German tanks push toward it to within a mile of Lewis’s slit trench.

Appears in 2 diary entries.

  1. September 11 1943
    HQ moves to a tranquil rural setting, but there's a creeping sense that the Fifth Army is unprepared and undefended.
  2. September 14 1943
    An intense night battle near the beachhead, with naval bombardment lighting the sky and hurried, ad hoc arming of the intelligence men.

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