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Show Anzio is Tough Declares Sergeant American fighting men doubted seriously for a time whether they could hold the Anzio beachhead in Italy in the face of German forces "backed up with a fine fighting skill and good equlp-" equlp-" ment " Technical Sergeant Lloyd Poulsen, 25, son of Mr. and Mrs. Willard Poulsen of Providence, reported re-ported upon his return from completing com-pleting 50 bombing missions over Africa, Sicily and Italy. Radio operator and gunner on a Mitchell medium bomber for ex- ! actly one year, Sergeant Poulsen 1 holds the air medal, good conduct medal and three campaign ribbons. rib-bons. He survived one mission when flak punched 120 holes in his plane which also was fighting off three Nazi fighter ships. He flew his last mission over - the Anzio beachhead below Rome. "It looked as if, for a while, they would be pushed back into the sea," he said. "It was a pretty rugged job to hold on." |
