Volturno Line

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. On the Adriatic coast elements of the British 78th Infantry Division's 11th Brigade infantry crossed the Biferno at dawn on October 3, 1943 following an amphibious landing at Termoli by Commandos at 0215.[1] By late morning the two elements had linked up and that night 78th Division's 36th Brigade were able to be landed by sea at Termoli. However, logistical problems had prevented the Allies building a heavy duty bridge across the Biferno and when the bulldozed fords were washed away by heavy rains that evening there remained no way to get tanks across the river to support the infantry. On hearing of the landings at Termoli, the German supreme commander in Italy, Field Marshall Albert Kesselring, ordered the German 16th Panzer Division to switch to the Adriatic front, presenting a major threat to the unsupported Allied infantry.

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