FIERCE FIGHTING AT SAN PIETRO AS U.S. FIFTH ARMY ADVANCES NORTH
San Pietro Infine, Southern Italy • December 17, 1943 On this date in 1943 what little remained of the ancient Italian farming community of San Pietro Infine, population 1,400, fell to the U.S. 36th (“Texas”) Infantry Division of Lt. Gen. Mark Clark’s U.S. Fifth Army—this after the collapse of the Bernhardt Line (or Reinhard Line), an…