Word: trapani
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gained more than 20 airfields and at least four first-rate ports (Catania, Syracuse, Palermo, Trapani). Thereby they won firm control of the Mediterranean, held vital springboards for further assault on Europe...
...Collapse. The campaign in western Sicily was all but over. Other ports fell: Marsala and Trapani, naval bases where there was no Italian Navy and no fight on land; Termini, Imerese and Cefalú, east of Palermo on the upper coastal route to Messina and Italy. In twelve days the Seventh Army had fought for its beachheads in southwestern Sicily, fought inland past Barrafranca (see p. 34}, fought for 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...