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Next night the Sicilian campaign commander, Lieut. General George S. Patton, called for reinforcing troops from the 82nd Airborne Division to land within his own lines. Up went 170 planes, each bearing 18 paratroopers. They swung low over the water near Gela...
Terry Allen and his division were ready for the final days in Tunisia when (with other units of the U.S. II Corps and the British First Army) they smashed through to Tunis and final victory in Tunisia. They were ready for Sicily, for Gela, where the Germans counterattacked to the beaches and Terry Allen said: "Hell, we haven't begun to fight. Our artillery hasn't been overrun yet." They were ready for the inland march, for battle at Ponte Olivo and Barrafranca, for fierce and clever battle with the Germans at Nicosia last week...
...side of a forward gun turret. It was the white silhouette of a medium "Tiger" German tank, official recognition that their ship had destroyed one of the enemy tanks which gave Major General Terry Allen's "Fighting First" Division a rough time during the initial hours at Gela...
...trophy did not mark the first time that enemy tanks had been destroyed by naval fire- another destroyer claimed four tanks during the Sicilian landings, and naval guns got most of the 17 tanks destroyed around Gela in one day.* But it spotlighted how the 5-and 6-inch weapons of U.S. destroyers and light cruisers and the 15-inch rifles of a British monitor supplemented Army field artillery in the invasion's early hours. Naval bombardment of shore targets is not new; but at Sicily ships knocked out tanks and guns they could not see and supported infantry...
Burly, silent, broody Jack Belden (TIME & LIFE) boiled on to the beaches near Gela with an amphibian force and, when the front line had been moved far enough inland, sat down at a headquarters shack to bat out some copy. German tanks were lobbing shells overhead against landing craft on the beach. An officer hurried in: "Tanks are two miles from headquarters! What's the use of writing a story when you may be captured in a few minutes...