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Introduction to Gela. Daylight came. Up & down the beaches officers had marshaled their men, found lost companies, established contacts with other units on their flanks. With daylight came the first German planes-20 of them in one attack, veering from the beaches toward the ships...
Ashore the job was to take Gela. On the hills enemy artillery opened up. One U.S. unit found three wooden guns on a hill, but there were real guns, too. Warships answered, and the men on and near the beaches lay between the fire, under the whirring shells. Enemy machine gunners on a hill held up an advancing unit east of Gela. Enemy artillery fire raked the hillside...
...everywhere along the shore, the troops advanced. They took prisoners. They found enemy dead on the hilltops, beside ruined Roman relics of older conquests. Within seven hours of landing, Lieut. Colonel Darby and his Rangers had fought their way, ahead of the main body of the ist Division, into Gela...
Battle for Gela. The enemy was not through. The Rangers and the 1st Division had ahead of them 50 sleepless hours of bombing, tank and artillery attacks, the hardest fight in the experience of that experienced division...
...some 40 artillery pieces and 15 antitank guns in position to fire. It had three tanks, but one had lost a tread in the sand. These weapons were not enough for what was to come. Only the bravery of the men and the fire of the warships offshore saved Gela and the landing...