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| | Charles P. Edwards. An AFS Driver Remembers. (Draft manuscript) 2002. Part Seven. 1/2 (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | Lanciano, just ten miles west across another valley and then another ridge of hills, was the "hub" city of southern Abruzzo located between the great Maiella mountain massif, whose snows still gleamed white to the west, and San Vito/Ortona at the coast. |
 | | Lanciano, however, with close access to the front and midway between the mountains and the sea, was the logical "hub" or nerve--center for command, supply, transport, staging, storage depots, housing as well as field hospitals and amenities for the troops. |
 | | At the monument to Lanciano's fallen in war since 1914, the names of the dead are inscribed on panels in the walls surrounding the figure of a dead soldier held in the arms of Liberty. |
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