Word: sicilianism
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Hitler's words fitted this conception. So did the Sicilian campaign. So, last week, did the early stages of the defense of Italy, where German resistance was weakest in the extreme south, strongest at the northern points of attack. And so, insofar as they could be seen, did events and circumstances in the southern Balkans...
...trained for conquest of Northwest Africa and hardened in victory there. Only one of Anderson's divisions had been used in Sicily, the hill-taking 78th. There was U.S. Lieut. General Mark Wayne Clark's Fifth Army, built and trained behind the lines during the Tunisian and Sicilian campaigns, undoubtedly poised. Possibly included in the Fifth: two infantry divisions, the 9th and the 34th; and the 1st Armored Division, which have not been heard from since they fought Arnim south of Bizerte. There was Lieut. General George Patton's great Seventh Army-three infantry divisions, an airborne...
...Heel & Toe. The pre-invasion pattern was sharpest in the Mediterranean. Allied planes, sweeping up by day & night from North African and Sicilian bases, ripped Italy's communications below the Naples-Foggia line...
Cautiously, under a butter-colored moon, U.S. 3rd Division patrols reconnoitered the last eight miles to Messina. The stony Sicilian landscape flashed now & then with snipers' fire. The road was edged with the menace of mines, booby traps and demolition chasms. But clearly the stubborn, skillful, beaten enemy had pulled out. At 5:30 a.m., Aug. 17, Lieutenants Jeff McNeely and Ralph Yates led patrols into Messina. The Battle of Sicily, 38 days after it had begun, was over...
Army Banks. If a captured Sicilian town has been swept clean of Italian lira, but bank records are intact, military authorities stock the banks with invasion money. If the bank has been destroyed, the military sets up its own bank, circulates the currency by buying supplies, paying for land for new airports, paying laborers and U.S. troops (at a fixed rate of 100 lira to the dollar). To prevent inflation, a close check is kept on the amount issued. What the U.S. army spends on payrolls and purchases will be lopped from its appropriations back home...