Word: pantelleria
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...conquest of larger, blockade-free Sicily, next logical step on the way to Rome, will be no pushover, even though Allied bombers based on Pantelleria and nearby Lampedusa can have an umbrella of fighter escorts. Early this week Flying Fortresses plastered three of Sicily's major airdromes, while British Fleet units moved in closer to the Sicilian mainland...
...crushed Italian ego, did not make the conquest of the first territory within metropolitan Italy any more palatable to the war-sick, disorganized and frustrated Italian people. Mussolini waited 24 hours before officially announcing the capitulation, claiming that Italian airmen were having "great successes" and finally that Pantelleria had been turned into a "gigantic volcano." Italians did not miss the fact that the defeat came exactly three years and one day after Mussolini had led Italy into war against France and Britain. They remembered that he had boasted of "8,000,000 bayonets" ready to enforce the Fascist will...
...Italian underground and Italian anti-Fascists-thousands of whom had been forced to work on Pantelleria's defenses-the President's words were heartening. These groups had been worried over the policy of expedience in North Africa, fearful of the U.S. State Department's occult conservatism. Winston Churchill's chesty truculence.* The President gave the most forthright statement yet of Allied aims toward postwar Italy...
...first Negro fighter squadron in the Army Air Forces has seen action. This week Allied Headquarters in North Africa announced that among those present for the bombardment of Pantelleria was the outfit which began training at Tuskegee Institute (Ala.) in July...
Between then and Pantelleria, the squadron had been the subject of many a row over its segregation from white outfits. Its officers, headed by the C.O., slim, tea-colored Lieut. Colonel Benjamin 0. Davis, Jr., joined in none of the debate, plugged hard and long at their training. By the time West Pointer Davis led his P-4OS into battle, white airmen were ready to admit that the outfit was good, that in aerial marksmanship (at which it had had an unusual amount of training) it was one of the best...