Show r anks an ks 5 Drive r-Ive r Nazis aIlS Back ae at Beachhead ea Big Bombers Rain Death to Help Allies on Ground Three Enemy Divisions Launch Another Out All Attack South of Rome But U. U S. S Counterblow Regains Terri Territory ory B By Richard G. G Massock l S ALLIED LL D HEADQUARTERS Naples March 2 AP AP An AP Ameri American eri- eri can Flying Fortresses and Liberators swinging into the renewed battle on the Anzio beachhead smashed heavily at nazi tro troop p. p concentrations Thursday raining thousands of fragmentation bombs forces on enemy S S The great bombers roared into action as bitter fighting continued continued con coil con con- aground The Germans threw three divisions against the beachhead d line Wednesday driving American troops back 1500 yards bua but bu buta a fierce doughboy counterattack regained 1000 yards and still was was was' making progress Headquarters gave no indication of the size of the armada sent over the nazi positions but during the Germans Germans' last las big offensive ve hundreds of Flying Fortresses spread a pattern of fire over the enemy Bombers' Bombers Appearance E Emphasizes Intense Fight The the bombers this har hard hard- reappearance of heavy again agai on fought invasion sector emphasized the intensity of the struggle The Germans however were said to be resisting strongly near a road j junction slightly south of the midway point between and Cisterna after lost two thirds of the Carroceto having ground they gained Tuesday in the early stages stage of their assault apparently apparently apparently their third out all-out effort to wipe out the beachhead Thursdays Thursday's German s said id the allies at several points broke into our advanced positions gained on pr previous vi us days and described fluctuating fighting south and rid sou southwest 1 West of Cisterna Cist J More than German prisoners have been taken in inthe the b battle tt in which the Germans rammed Mark V y arid Ii d Tig Ti Tiger r t f tanks n ri s a at a the te allied lines under heavy artillery fire from both sid sides s J Nazi Artillery Fire Heaviest Since Landing S SA A dispatch sent from the beachhead Wednesday night by Associated Press War Correspondent Edward Kennedy quoted the doughboys as saying the battle was the stiffest the they had yet encountered and that the enemy artillery fire was the heaviest laid on them since the beachhead was established Kennedy said the sit situation was well wen in hand at that moment N Nazi zi Field Marshal Albert lbert Kesselring's Kesselring s forces laun launched hed th their ir attack Tuesday morning along long a yard thousand-yard front frn in inthe inthe inthe the middle of th the mile 10 stretch between Carroceto and Cisterna The enemy threw two battalions supported by tanks into the initial phase with American forces bearing the brunt of the attack By late afternoon three German divisions were plunging against the allied lines Jines The nazis broke through to a depth of about 1500 yards b but t the rest of the allied lines sto stood d firm against pressure exerted d dall all around the British American defense perimeter American troops launched a counter attack Tuesday night and up to noon Wednesday had won back 1000 lOOP yards I In the opening hours of the attack attack at at- tack German infantry rode tanks at 1 into battle and helped lift allied mines A steady rain I however turned open fields into a a quagmire and forced the tanks to stay on the highways S The Thc Germans were given only ony minor support by their airmen Spitfires shot down three Focke- Focke lOOs out of six over the beachhead Wednesday A Junkers 88 was shot down Tuesday night over Anzio American bombed German front line positions Wednesday Wed Wed- r and other and Spitfires cut to the r ar hitting other targets ts British Wellington Welling Welling- tons ton were thrown into the fray tray Wednesday night dropping blockbusters blockbusters blockbusters block block- busters and hitting g troop concen concen- t ra ll t i 0 o n fl s with fr fragmentation b bombs All returned safely Allied artillery was is credited a a prime role in breaking up th the main enemy aU attacks which centered centered centered cen cen- on a a line JUne roughly from Crom Isolabella through i Ponte Rotto Rotto Rot Rot- all south and to to all alI west west iest of Ci Heavy fire tire from Co Cop Continued l on Page Three Column Three S Americans Force Nazis Back on Italy Beachhead Continued from Pa Page e One the big guns knocked out several German tanks near Ponte Rotto The Germans constantly shelled the allied port areas during the height of the attack Tuesday Allied artillery broke up p a small scale German diversionary attack Tuesday about two miles due south of Cisterna and a total of prisoners including four officers officers officers cers were taken An allied counterblow counterblow counterblow coun coun- wiped out small enemy gains In the same general area southwest of allied troops took more than 20 prisoners from froma a nazi patrol of 30 3 to 50 men In the gullies and coves of the upper Moletta Maletta river sector southwest southwest southwest south south- west of Carroceto British troops still are engaging the Germans in successful encounters it was an an- There a British tank force piercing the German lines at dawn Tuesday entered a small settlement shot up an enemy platoon platoon pla pla- toon Jhc then retired Only minor patrol actions occurred occurred occurred oc oc- on the main Fifth army and Eighth army fronts |