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On Sun. 18 Mar 1945 General Mark Clark established the goal of the All.....

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General Mark Clark established the goal of the Allied offensive in Italy in spring 1945 to be 'to destroy the maximum number of enemy forces south of the Po River, force crossings of the Po and capture Verona'.

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