cisterna

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Hom, 20, went missing in February 1944 during fighting near the town of Cisterna di Latina, south of Rome.

From Washington Times • Jul. 12, 2023

I’m not in Cisterna because the Jerries still got it, but we were pretty darn close.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2012

A wide stream of lava creeping down its 10,741-ft. slope had cut a mountain highway, partially filled a reservoir, and frightened the villagers of Cisterna from their homes.

From Time Magazine Archive

Bloody was the struggle for Cisterna, where General von Mackensen, commanding the German Fourteenth Army, had turned the railway embankment into a fortification.

From Time Magazine Archive

A pit called La Cisterna, forty feet in diameter, opened in the Piano del Lago near the great cone, and ejected smoke and masses of old lava saturated with water.

From Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror by Linthicum, Richard