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...Part III. General Castellano, meanwhile, had reached Rome. He quickly left again, this time for Sicily, where he met General Eisenhower's staff and the second general sent out by Marshal Badoglio. Presumably in Palermo, the parleys entered their final phase. In that city, on Aug. 29, American ack-ack gunners received startling orders. A Savoia-Marchetti bomber headed for the airfield was not to be fired on. The big plane slid down, and two Italian officers stepped out. On the 30th it took off again, escorted by three U.S. Lightnings. On the 31st it was back again...
...Inconceivable, Terrible." Germany defended herself with desperation. Searchlights fingered the bomber fleets all the way across the continent. From German cities hundreds of night-fighter planes tried to intercept. Ack-ack fire in Berlin was light, but fighter resistance was savage and concentrated. The British Air Ministry reported that 58 of its bombers were shot down. The air battle over Nürnberg was described as the greatest air night battle of the war. The R.A.F. admitted losing 33 more planes...
Last winter Mary was elevated to the rank of second subaltern, which pays her about $12 a week, before taxes. At her ack-ack battery she shares a room in a camouflaged wooden hut with another ATS officer. On duty she eats in the officers' mess. Drinks are available, but Mary seldom has one. The battery has a hockey field near the barracks. Mary plays inside forward...
...steady bombardment from sea & air rained on the small boats ferrying the Germans from Messina to the mainland. While Allied light and heavy warships steamed into the straits to shell the skittering small craft, Allied aircraft bombed and strafed them from above. The Germans had massed hundreds of ack-ack guns at the straits, as well as heavy batteries of coast artillery-but there was little opposition to the Allies from...
...days German fighters and bombers repeatedly attacked the ships offshore and the beachheads jammed with men and supplies (see p. 28). In the air Allied losses were low, and so was the bag of enemy planes: the Axis fighters avoided combat with Allied fighters when they could. But enemy ack-ack on Sicily was often concentrated and dangerous. Allied air supremacy was won and maintained by a gallantry all the more impressive because it was routine...