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...people of Catania cheered hysterically as the British moved in (see p. 30). Then, a bit later, something snapped...
Canadians Forward. As the Eighth Army's "left hook," the Canadians shared the job of outflanking Catania, the eastern anchor of the German line. They slugged a path across the terraced hills. They tried their bayonets and lungs in vicious charges through vineyards and lemon orchards. They helped the British into Regalbuto and Centuripe. From that high ground they could roll up the whole German line on Mt. Etna's western slope. General Montgomery could now begin the envelopment of Catania, and thereby spare his men a costly frontal assault...
...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...
...Germans' time in Sicily was running out. After the Americans and Canadians had turned the Axis flank back upon Mt. Etna, the Allies struck for the kill. To his Britons, attacking at Catania, General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery said: "We will now drive the Germans from Sicily. Into the battle with a stout heart. Good luck...
Nicosia and Agira were two towns in central Sicily that the Allies had to take on their march toward the Germans' last line around Mt. Etna. Canadians, between the British at Catania and Americans on the left, took Agira. U.S. troops, apparently Major General Terry de la Mesa Allen's 1st Infantry Division (see col. 3), took Nicosia. The only road to that town lay through a deep mountain trough, fortified by the Germans, and past German-held hills. With Captain Edward Wozenski and his company, when they took one of these hills, was TIME Correspondent John Hersey...