[Bodston]

Friday 28 January 1944

Beromünster Radio (Switzerland)
This past week, American and British forces made landings behind the German front lines in central Italy, in the small ports of Anzio and Nettuno. . . The invasion landing took place at the same time that fierce fighting was raging on the Garigliano river and at Cassino between Kesselring's German forces and Americans under General Clark and French under General Juin. . . For a 48-hour period the allies were free to build, expand and fortify their bridgeheads at Nettuno without enemy interference and, under cover from the bridgehead, to unload their heavy equipment, guns, armoured vehicles, ammunition etc. and what appears to be a strong landing force. The strip of coast betwwen the landing points and the Appian way is flat and very sparcely populated, which made it easy for the allies to deploy.
Rome lies approximately 25 miles north of the landing zone, but there is no indications that the main objective of the landing is to occupy the Eternal City. Instead it should be viewed as a move to attack from the rear the German front lines on the Garigliano and at Cassino, both of which are located south of the landing zone.