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Operation Avalanche: U.S. Navy’s 4th Beach Battalion Assault on Salerno During World War II| World War II | 2 comments | Print This Post | Email This Post
Admiral Henry K. Hewitt, commanding the Western Naval Task Force, later acknowledged the sailors’ contribution at Salerno: ‘The Fourth Beach Battalion performed its assigned tasks in an outstanding manner under enemy fire.’ Without naval gunfire support, the American beachhead could have been lost; without the sailors operating their radios, this support would have been less effective if not impossible. Yet one beach party member, years later, offered his own modest evaluation of the part his unit played during the Salerno landing: ‘It seemed like the most unorganized thing that ever was, but we won.’ Subscribe Today
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2 Comments to “Operation Avalanche: U.S. Navy’s 4th Beach Battalion Assault on Salerno During World War II”
Hi I’m Michelangelo De Leo, I’m italian and I live in Paestum. I am 32 but my grand parents told me their personal memories of the american landing of 1943. They said me that those was hard days, there was fear and misery (my grand mother to make a little bit of money sewed the wedding-dresses with the found cloths of the american parachutes). Some days ago in Salerno was found an english bomb of the 1943 and the old people told to the medias about the bombardments of June 1943. It was very interesting and touching and now they want pick up those memories to make the virtual archives for the museum of the american landing (it will be made in the future)before to lose that human patrimony.
My relatives, Michael and Beverly Dorio (that live in New York), suggested me to visit this site; it’s very interesting.
Ciao, Michelangelo
By michelangelo de leo on Sep 21, 2008 at 5:02 pm
Hello,
My relatives, Carlo and Maria DeMartino, and Ada Salerno built one of the first ‘new’ houses in Paestum in a corner of a tobacco field near the beach. That was around 1956.
I am now 63 and loved to spend summers with my family in Paestum.
My mother and her entire family are from Naples…Alberto an Silvia Politelli.
Have you ever heard of any of these people?
Just wondering.
Carol
By Carol Taylor on Oct 12, 2009 at 11:25 pm