World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF ITALY: Death Comes to Ortona
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By week's end the victors had pushed two miles above Ortona, were ten miles below Pescara, Adriatic terminus of the shortest transpeninsular rail-and-highway to Rome. Theirs had been the most notable gain in another week of hill-by-hill advance up the Italian boot. Through dead Ortona, the Canadians trudged after the retreating, fighting Germans.
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