Word: sicilianism
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...first week of the Sicilian invasion, American troops had met with spectacular success: the weapons and men of the Axis seemed to be no match for the full weight of the vast new Allied military machine. The worried American fathers and mothers took heart; first reports of U.S. casualties sounded wonderfully small. In the first week of the invasion, the Associated Press reported, fewer than 100 men were wounded so badly they had to be flown back to North Africa...
...press covered the invasion with the dash and color it once used on championship prize fights. With the ache and strain filtered out, the war began to look like a movie: brave Americans dashing across the blue Mediterranean and up golden Sicilian beaches to plant the Stars & Stripes amid a grateful populace...
...Sicily last week flamboyant General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery gave a whirlwind interview. Asked how long the Sicilian campaign would last, he said...
...correspondent aboard the command ship saw a lone figure, leaning on the bridge rail. It was General Patton, gazing over the water toward the Sicilian shore, where history and the enemy awaited...
...growled that Pantelleria was a lesson not only in the possibilities of air power, but in the enormous effort required to apply that, or any other, means of war. Sicily, they said, would take an effort many, many times that needed for Pantelleria. Italy and Germany would be a Sicilian campaign multiplied a thousand times...