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...last 50 miles to Messina. On Aug. 2, General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery of the British Eighth Army and Lieut. General George Smith Patton Jr. of the U.S. Seventh started an offensive. Within a week the generals and their men had cracked the enemy line from Mt. Etna to the Tyrrhenian Sea. Harried by land, sea and by air, the Germans fell back toward Messina's crescent beach. Less than four miles across the treacherous strait lay one castlecrowned heights of Italy...
Fiercest were the five days around Troina, a craggy road junction shielding the German position on Mt. Etna's northwest shoulder. The first combat team thrown against Troina by Major General Terry Allen's ist Infantry Division bounced back hard. German howitzers and mor tars skillfully held the hilltops. The ist Division massed its artillery, called in dive-bombers of the Tactical Air Force. For 72 hours the dust of an Allied barrage hung over the German emplacements. Then the ist Division smashed forward and through Troina...
...slopes of Mt. Etna and its foothills and on ridges overlooking the Plain of Catania, the Germans had every advantage. Their heavy artillery, anti-tank guns and machine guns bore downward at the British attackers. Northwestward, where the Canadians and Americans were advancing to aid the British and encompass Etna, every hill and defile could become a similar fortress when the Ger mans chose to make...
...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...