BATTLE OF GERMANY (South)
At first it appeared that the British and Americans had finally made the grand invasion of the Balkans. Allied headquarters in Rome permitted correspondents to go all out, announce that a new organization known as the Land Forces of the Adriatic had landed in Albania and the Yugoslav islands.
From the few details released it appeared that the operation had begun eleven days earlier. U.S. newspapers shrilled "gigantic," "large-scale," the "first big penetration of the Balkans by the Western Allies." Then headquarters shut up. Adjectives began to sag. Correspondents...
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