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...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...
...toughest fight of the Sicily campaign. A sergeant, his face a mass of weariness, came up the hill at the head of G company. The colonel quickly called him: "Get here quickly. Go over there to the left, contact H and F company and look out for the left flank." The sergeant went over the brow of the hill. Only four or five soldiers were close behind him. Somewhere below, the rest of the column was struggling upward with painful slowness...
...Lieut. Colonel James Curtis was just finishing his breakfast of K rations when the telephone rang in divisional headquarters. The message said that 30 to 40 German tanks had attacked the 2nd Battalion of the division's 16th infantry regiment. That battalion held the division's right flank on a hill between Gela and the inland town of Niscemi...
...right flank was saved. But the left was also under attack. Darby of the Rangers, on that flank, watched 300 Italians march toward his position. When they were well within range, his mortars fired. Only 50 Italians survived to retreat...
...Wide Advance. Such was the fighting for Gela and its beaches, the fighting which made the rest of the U.S. invasion possible. On the ist Division's left flank, 48-year-old, Texas-born Major General Lucian K. Truscott's 3rd Infantry Division seized Licata and its neighboring airfields, then expanded its position westward and inland to take Canicatti and seize the old walled port of Agrigento and its innumerable, well-placed gun positions...