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Article: Allied failures at Anzio haunt Bush's Memorial Day speech
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- May 29, 1989
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NETTUNO, Italy Anzio, which gave its name to the beachhead that
led to four months of bloody fighting before allied forces broke
German resistance and swept to Rome, lies only a couple of miles from
the cemetery where President Bush marked Memorial Day Sunday.
Many of those buried at the Sicily-Rome American Cemetery fell
during the Anzio campaign, which began Jan. 22, 1944, with an
amphibious flanking movement intended to force a German retreat from
its stubborn defense of Cassino and open the way to the capture of
Rome.
But Bush never mentioned Anzio in his speech at the cemetery.
Asked why, David Demarest, White House communications director,
acknowledged that there is "a mixed ...