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Carthage meeting with Ike and illness of

Cassino and

Clark and

cross-Channel invasion vs. Italian campaign and

DIADEM
and

fall of Rome and

FDR and

Freyberg and

gas warfare and

HUSKY
and

Italian surrender and

penicillin and

postwar world envisioned by

Quebec conference and

Rome as objective and

Sicily campaign and

TRIDENT
and

war production and

Cicero

Cisterna

civilians

Civil War

Clark, Ann

Clark, Lt. Gen. Mark W.

advance after Naples and

aftermath of Italy and controversy over leadership of

Anzio and

AVALANCHE
and

background of

birthday of, at Caserta

Caserta Palace HQ and

Cassino and

DIADEM
and

DIADEM
switch in drive to Rome and

frictions with British and

Italian campaign after fall of Rome and

leadership style of

liberation of Rome and

Monte Cassino bombing and

Naples and

Patton and

Rapido and

relieves Dawley of command

relieves Lucas of command and appoints Truscott

Rome fixation of

secret trip home and meeting with Marshall

succeeded by Truscott as Fifth Army commander

winter campaign and

Clark, Maurine Doran “Renie”

Clausewitz

Cleghorn, Capt. Rufus J.

Cole
, U.S.S.

Collier’s

Colli Laziali (Alban Hills)

Collins, Dr. Lawrence D.

Combined Bomber Offensive

Combined Chiefs of Staff

Italian overtures for peace and

Compton, Capt. John Travers

Conca

Coningham, Air Vice Marshal Arthur

Conolly, Rear Adm. Richard L.

Conrad, Joseph

Conrath, Gen. Paul

Contrera, Sgt. Carlo

Cookson, Col. Forrest E.

Cooper, Gary

Cooper, James Fenimore

coordination of forces

Cori

Coriolanus

CORNFLAKES
, Project

Corsica

courts-martial

Crawford, Joan

Crete

Crimean War

Croatia

Cromwell, Oliver

Crosby, Bing

cross-Channel invasion dispute.
See also
Normandy invasion;
OVERLORD

Crusades

Cunningham, Adm. Andrew Browne

Cunningham, Adm. Sir John H.D.

Currier, Col. Donald E.

 

Daily Mail
(London)

Daily Word, The

Dancocks, Daniel G.

Danger, Corp. E. P.

Dante Alighieri

Darby, Col. William O. “Bill”

Davis, Gen. Benjamin O., Sr.

Davis, Lt. Col. Benjamin O., Jr.

Dawley, Maj. Gen. Ernest J.

Dawson, Capt. Joseph T.

DDT

Dean, Dizzy

Dees, Flight Officer Ruby H.

De Gaulle, Gen. Charles

de Guingand, Maj. Gen. Freddie

demolitions

Dempsey

Denmark

Derbyshire
, H.M.S.

deserters

Desiderius of Bertharius

Devers, Lt. Gen. Jacob L.

DIADEM
, Operation

Anzio and shift in direction

Artemisio and

atrocities and

Eighth Army and

Gustav and Hitler Lines broken

liberation of Rome and

planned

Diamare, Dom Gregorio (abbot)

Dickens, Charles

DICKENS
, Operation

Dietrich, Marlene

Dimoline, Brig. H. W.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Dobson, Maj. Jack

Donizetti, Gaetano

Donovan, Brig Gen. William J.

Doolittle, Maj. Gen. James H. “Jimmy”

Dostler, Gen. Anton

Douglas, Keith

Draft Act (1940)

Duchess of Bedford
, H.M.S.

Dunkirk

Dyestuff Advisory Committee

 

Eagles, Maj. Gen. William W.

Eaker, Lt. Gen. Ira C.

Eastern Front

East Indies

Eddy

Ehalt, Sgt. Maj. Robert E.

Eisenhower, Gen. Dwight D.

1st Division discipline and

airborne calamity during
HUSKY
and

Algeria and

Allen and Roosevelt relieved of command and

AVALANCHE
and

background and leadership style of

Badoglio surrender and

Bari raid and

Biscari massacre and

Bradley and

campaign after fall of Rome and

Churchill and

Clark and

FDR and Cairo conference and

final message of, to troops in Mediterranean

health problems of

HUSKY
and

invasion of mainland Italy and

Italian winter campaign and

Keyes and

Lucas and

marriage with Mamie and

Messina and

Monte Cassino bombing and

Monty and

Normandy and lessons of
AVALANCHE

OVERLORD
and

Patton and

Patton slapping incident and

Salerno and

son John and

Summersby and

TRIDENT
and

Truscott and relief of Lucas and

Eisenhower, Ida

Eisenhower, John

Eisenhower, Mamie

Eke, C. Richard

El Alamein, battle of

El Guettar, battle of

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

engineers

Enigma codes

Erasmus

Eritrea

Ethiopia

Etna, Mount

Etna Line

Everett, Lt. William E.

Eversole, St. Frank “Buck”

 

Fairbanks, Douglas, Jr.

Fargnoli, Pietro

Fasci de Combattimento

Faulkner, William

Faust, Frederick Schiller

FBI

Feltre conference

Fergen, Sgt. Thomas B.

Field Order No. 1 (Patton)

Fields, Gracie

FINANCE

FISCHFANG, Operation

Flint, Col. Harry A. “Paddy”

“flooding program”

Florence

Florence Nightingale
, U.S.S.

Foggia airdromes

food shortages

forced labor

Formosa

Fort Athabaska
, H.M.S.

Four Freedoms

France

Francis, St.

Frankfurt

Frascati headquarters

Frazior, Maj. David M.

Frederick, Col. Robert T.

Frederick the Great

Freeman, Douglas Southall

Freeman, Lt. Col. Leslie G.

French 1st French Infantry Division

French 2nd Moroccan Infantry Division

French 3rd Algerian Infantry Division

French 4th Moroccan Mountain Division

French Expeditionary Corps (FEC)

French forces

French Goumiers (Berbers,
goums
)

Freyberg, Lt. Gen. Bernard C. “Spadger”

friendly fire incidents

Agrigento

Cassino bombing

DIADEM

Gela

Primosole Bridge

Fritz-X (FX-1400, guided bomb)

Frosinone

Frost, Lt. Col. John

fuel

Fulbright, Sgt Newton H.

Fuller, J.F.C.

Funston
, U.S.S.

FW-190s (Focke-Wulfe)

 

Gairdner, Lt. Gen. Sir Charles

Gallipoli, battle of

Gardiner, Col. William T.

Gardiner, Lt. Col. Henry E.

Garigliano River

Gavin, Col. James Maurice

Gela

battle of

counterattack

Gellhorn, Martha

Geneva Conventions

Gennaro, Saint

George VI, King of England

German I Parachute Corps

German 1st Parachute Division “Green Devils”

German 3rd Panzer Grenadier Division

German 3rd Parachute Regiment

German Tenth Army

German Fourteenth Army

German XIV Panzer Corps

German 15th Panzer Grenadier Division

German 16th Panzer Division

German 26th Panzer Division

German 29th Panzer Grenadiers

German LI Mountain Corps

German 65th Infantry Division

German 71st Panther Grenadier Regiment

German LXXVI Panzer Corps

German 90th Panzer Grenadier Division

German 94th Grenadier Division

German 362nd Division

German 715th Division

German Afrika Korps

German Bozen Police Regiment

German Hermann Göring Panzer Division

German high command (Berlin)

German Infantry Lehr Regiment

German Luftwaffe

German POWs

German SS

German Wehrmacht

German Wehrmacht 71st Division

Germany (Germans).
See also
Hitler;
and specific generals and military campaigns and units

Allied air power vs.

Allies underestimate

Anschluss
with Austria

Anzio and

art looted by

atrocities by

AVALANCHE
and

Calabrian retreat and

codes of

demolitions by

DIADEM
and

Eastern Front and North Africa

evacuations and

fight for Italy not foreseen by

gas warfare and

Greece and

Gustav Line, Cassino and

Gustav Line, Rapido River and

HUSKY
and

impact of Italian campaign on

invasion of Italy to divert

Italian surrender and takeover by

Messina evacuation and

Mussolini and

Naples rebellion and demolitions in

reprisals by, vs. Italians

Rome and

Salerno and

scorched earth retreat of

Sicily and

submariner casualty rate

territory controlled by, in May 1943

“total war” and

war economy of

Winter Line and

Gervasi, Frank

Gestapo

Gettysburg, battle of

GIANT II
, Operation

Gibbon, Edward

Gibraltar

Gildersleeve, Lt. Wilf

GINNY OSS
mission

“Global Strategy of the War” (
TRIDENT
memo)

“God of Battles” (Patton)

Goebbels, Joseph

Goethe

GOLDRUSH
, Project

Gonzaga, Gen. Don Ferrante

Gonzalez

Göring, Emmy

Göring, Hermann

Gothic Line

Gran Sasso, Mussolini escape from

Grant, Cary

Grant, Gen. Ulysses S.

Gray, J. Glenn

Great Britain.
See also specific individuals and military units

decline of

empire and

history of overseas campaigns

Ike and

Malta and

OVERLORD
preparations in

TRIDENT
and

Greece

Greece, ancient

Grenville
, H.M.S.

Gruenther, Maj. Gen. Alfred M.

Gunman’s Reckoning
(Brand)

Gunther, John

Gurkhas

Gustav Line

 

Hall, Rear Adm. John L.

Hamilton, Nigel

Handbook of Irregular Warfare

Hangman’s Hill

Hannibal

Hanssen, Otto Henry “Bud”

Harding, Lt. Gen. A. F. “John”

Harmon, Maj. Gen. Ernest N. “Ernie”

Harris, Sgt. Randall

Hart, B. H. Liddell

Hawkesworth, Maj. Gen. John “Ginger”

Heidrich, Maj. Gen. Richard

Helena, Queen of Italy

Helgeson, Capt. Donald V.

Heller, Lt. Joseph

Hellman, Lillian

Hell’s Half-Acre medical compound

Henderson, G.F.R.

Hendrickson, Ranger

Henry IV, Part 2
(Shakespeare)

Hersey, John

Hewitt, Vice Adm. Henry Kent

Highway 5

Highway 6 (Victory Road)

Highway 7 (Appian Way)

Highway 16

Highway 17

Highway 18

Highway 19

Highway 82

Highway 87

Highway 91

Hilary
, H.M.S.

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