Allies strangle supplies entering Leghorn.

Allies strangle supplies entering Leghorn. A ship lists to ine side after heavy bombers of the Mediterranean Allied Air Forces carried out an attack on the port of Leghorn, Italy, later captured by U.S. troops. After Allied air attacks on rail lines had forced the Nazis to rely on Italian ports and motor transport, Allied bombers carrying out a coordinated plan, dried up the trickle of supplies coming into Leghorn by leaving harbor devastation like this behind. All of leghorn's docks, warehouses and harbor installations received the same treatment. Leghorn, the third largest port in Italy, handled upward of 9,000 tons of shipping before the war. It was captured July 19, 1944, by American forces without oppositions in the city itself after one of the stiffest fights in the Italian campaign.