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They Will Not Be Easy. Nearly everyone supposed that the invasion was to begin with the seizure of Italy's western Mediterranean islands, Pantelleria, Sicily and Sardinia. There was an impression that this preliminary would be a rather minor operation, hardly in keeping with the great Allied convoys seen on their way into the Mediterranean, or with the supposed strength of the Allied forces in North Africa.* Nothing in the nature of the islands, or in the record of this war to date, indicates that the operation will be easy. It was against just such optimism that Admiral Ernest...
...weight and intensity of aerial at tacks on the harbors, airfields, artillery positions and railways of Sicily and Sardinia steadily increased (see p. 55). Italian and German resistance, particularly in the air, steadily decreased. But softening by air is not conquest. At the weekend, Americans struck at Italy's chief weapon of Mediterranean defense, its navy, with an air attack on three battleships at Spezia. Results: uncertain...
...first phase of the battle for Axis-held southern Europe has already begun. Since the fall of Tunis, Allied airmen of the Strategic Air Force have smashed steadily at Axis first lines of defense on the Mediterranean islands of Pantelleria, Lampedusa, Sicily and Sardinia. Last week the range and tempo of these attacks increased...
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, North Africa--More than 400 American and British planes, clamping an serial pincers on the Axis from French Africa and the Middle East, pounded 16 target areas stretching 700 miles from Greece to Sardinia yesterday in what was described officially as a "terrific hammering" of Southern Europe's crumbling invasion defenses...
...Best estimate of remaining Italian strength and its disposition: Thirty-five infantry divisions (about 12,000 men in each) in Yugoslavia and Greece; about twelve divisions on the Italian mainland; about eight in Sicily, Sardinia and Corsica; and about six in France; an air force of about 1,400 operational planes (probably half are fighters, very few are heavy bombers...