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...Etna Line. On the remaining Axis forces in Sicily an Allied gate was closing. The Axis forces still fighting were mostly German, now facing the possibility that Italy itself might desert them in their rear. They were in the northeast, facing the Canadians and British of General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery's Eighth Army. But the Germans were not unmindful of the Americans in the west and in central Sicily. Unopposed, the Seventh could close in on Messina behind the Germans, shutting their only way out. This week Allied headquarters reported that the Germans had flung a line from...
...week's end General Montgomery met reporters within sight of Mt. Etna. "Well, gentlemen," he said, "this is the first time I ever fought around a volcano." Monty also said: "I am very pleased with the way things are going...
...region of high wheat fields. They roared above the lemon and orange groves of the precipitous northern coast. On the port of Messina, the chief point of entry for supplies from the mainland, they dumped the biggest Sicilian bomb loads. (But none down the volcanic throat of nearby Mt. Etna- On both island and mainland the targets were carefully chosen: airdromes with their repair shops and grounded aircraft, railway junctions, gun emplacements, munitions and gasoline dumps. Said a veteran of Jimmy Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, describing an attack on three airdromes: "It was the best job of Allied...
During an eruption of volcanic Mauna Loa in Hawaii in 1935, U.S. Army airmen tried (with debatable success) to divert the flow of lava by dropping a few bombs on strategic spots. Last week Allied bombers, flying over the smoky craters of Mt. Etna in Sicily and Mt. Vesuvius on the Bay of Naples, thought of other strategic spots: could a few well-placed bombs start Etna and Vesuvius erupting...
...doesn't Mr. Etna, "The Mountain", have much to do with their way of life? There have been some 80 eruptions. Might not another come tomorrow? Even now! Life is uncertain. But there is always the present, always a song, always the sea to look upon. and so the live...