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Last June 23, when the invasion of Sicily was 17 days away, Major General Terry de la Mesa Allen wrote a letter from North Africa to an Army friend at home. Of him self, General Allen wrote nothing. Of his men in the ist Infantry Division, which he commands, Terry Allen wrote...
That evening, with the ist battalion and the tanks, we drove into Barrafranca...
...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...
...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...
Correspondents found many stories of this sort. Whether by design or by the normal composition of many U.S. divisions, especially the ist, there were enough Italian-Americans in the U.S. units to speed the rapprochement of invaders and invaded...