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General Sir Bernard Montgomery, who, back home with his cricket-captain son David, had lately made a picture of English summertime contentment, was in a jam when his Fortress ground-looped on a Sicilian airport about the size of a cricket field. Thoroughly shaken up but uninjured, the General "took it like a good sport," said his pilot...
...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...
Impartial Treatment. Sicilian casualties (both Allied and Axis) are picked up by the U.S. Army Medical Corps in Sicily, get first aid, are then flown over the water in an air ambulance to a field near the Evac. A ground ambulance picks them up and deposits them at the hospital's receiving tent. There a casualty is treated much like a patient entering a ward at home. His field medical record is begun with entries describing his wound and how he got it-these entries are copied from the tag attached to his coverall. The record, stamped with...
...Caltanissetta and (with the Canadians) for Enna in central Sicily. After that, the Italian Army in western Sicily simply quit fighting. Two divisions, the 206th Coastal and 4th Livorno, had shown some spirit. Others, including the 26th and the 28th Infantry Divisions, fought little or not at all. Sicilian militia and thousands of regular soldiers quit the ranks, melted back into their fields and their towns. The British took General Giulio Cesare Gotti Porcinari, and the soldiers said...
...shrewd bankers of Berne last week showed just how important they think the Allied successes in Sicily are. They were paying only half as much for German marks as they paid before the Sicilian invasion began. Unlike German bonds, the mark has reacted to Allied victories in only one way-downward. In Berne last week a Reichsmark was worth the equivalent of 1.86 U.S. cents (in 1939, 14 cents...