Word: sicilianism
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...like tigers-500 to 600 of them, forcing Italian soldiers to fight with them. They held it for the better part of a week while Allied bombers and artillery reduced its houses to a heap of rubble. The battle for Randazzo was one of the bloodiest in the entire Sicilian campaign...
...Germans were beaten in the Sicilian skies as decisively as they were beaten on the island's soil. Said Air Marshal Sir Arthur Coningham, commander of the Northwest African Tactical Air Force: "[The Luftwaffe] has been knocked out of the skies so far as we are concerned." How completely the Allies dominated the seas was shown last week when a British task force steamed up to the Gulf of Naples, shelled naval installations there and returned without a scratch...
...week the Allies captured German documents detailing orders to evacuating troops to take all the equipment they could carry with them. These orders said that to Italy, "the passport is a gun." Those words, for the Allies as well as the Germans, could stand as a motto of the Sicilian campaign...
...Navy communiqué announced the first U.S. warship casualties of the Sicilian campaign: the destroyer Maddox and the minesweeper Sentinel, lost on July 10-11 during landing operations...
...dispatch which follows, TIME Correspondent Jack Belden describes the last hours of the bitterest battle which American troops fought in the Sicilian campaign...