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...reminded the world, including the enemy, of the forces available to him. There was British Lieut. General Kenneth Anderson's First Army, trained for conquest of Northwest Africa and hardened in victory there. Only one of Anderson's divisions had been used in Sicily, the hill-taking 78th. There was U.S. Lieut. General Mark Wayne Clark's Fifth Army, built and trained behind the lines during the Tunisian and Sicilian campaigns, undoubtedly poised. Possibly included in the Fifth: two infantry divisions, the 9th and the 34th; and the 1st Armored Division, which have not been heard from...
...troops which took Randazzo were veterans of Tunisia: the U.S. 9th Division (not heretofore reported in Sicily) and the British 78th Division. The Americans, who had been fighting their way up the highway from Troina (see p. 30), were first to enter the town. They found it deserted and aflame, racked by explosions...
Tommies Forward. Under savage artillery and mortar fire the Eighth Army leveled a road across the dried river bed of the Dittaino. This was part of the "left hook." In the first were the British 78th Division (veterans of Tunisia's Long Stop Hill), the soth Northumbrians and the 51st Highlanders. Between Centuripe and Paterno they tangled in the hardest struggle of the campaign. But the men that punched forward and the men left behind broke the Etna line, tore away Catania's flank...
...Congressmen were learning. Generally speaking, thus far they seemed to have found that the people: 1) approve of Congress, and, in the main, of the 78th's record; 2)a re mistrustful of bureaucrats; 3) are explosively angry at OPA regulations; 4) are generally satisfied with Mr. Roosevelt as Commander in Chief...
...three months the 78th did nothing worth recording: it was one of the longest gestation periods any new Congress had ever required. The press went after it hammer & tongs for its inaction while the world burned. But the new 78th poked cautiously along. Besides, there was nothing much to do in the way of legislating on a large scale. "Old Muley" Doughton had the tax bill before his House Ways & Means committee, and after a member had taken sides pro-or-con the Ruml Plan, he could drift on without mental travail-unless he was the serious kind of Congressman...