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...planes had just dive-bombed the jutting rock of Troina where it stuck up like an island amid the circling mountain peaks. Black smoke curled upward in columns, merging into one big black cloud beneath which Troina disappeared like Camelot fading into the mists. We drove our jeep around a cliff to where an ambulance had halted beneath a ledge. Beyond that no car could advance, for the road was mined. By the ambulance lay a soldier who looked up at us with the tender, inquiring gaze the eyes of wounded men often seem to wear. A first...
Cattlemen protested, got out their rifles again, but to no avail. John Mohler moved ruthlessly on, stamping out every trace of the disease. It spread to the mountains of California, where no graves could be dug. John Mohler herded the cattle into canyons, blasted rock from the hillsides to cover their carcasses. It spread to deer in the Stanislaus National Forest. For twelve months, John Mohler's patient men stalked the forest, using rifles with silencers to avoid scattering the deer, killed every member of a herd of 22,000. In the two epidemics, 280,000 cattle, swine, sheep...
Along the north coast, where the road chews through solid rock, the Germans set off demolition charges. The Yanks had to toil over and around obliterated roads; artillery had to be ferried up by sea. Then from ferrying guns the Seventh Army proceeded to ferrying troops. In a bold pre-dawn landing behind the German lines the Americans captured San Agata and Sari Fratello, surprised and destroyed a column of enemy reinforcements...
...north coast road; the Royal Navy ripped the highway on the island's other side. Over Messina converged the Allied air arm, bombing and gunning, by day and night, the barges and small boats shuttling Germans from Sicily to Italy, from the whirlpool of Charybdis to the rock of Scylla...
...weeks he masters landings and take-offs from rock-strewn flying strips, edged with trees and telephone wires. Students learn to land on curves in rutted dirt roads, to take off and clear soft. obstacles in 400 ft. Grasshopper tactics are simple: stay as low as possible, come down as soon as possible. Six hundred feet is the prescribed ceiling; from that altitude grasshoppers can make accurate corrections on targets six miles away. From 600 ft. pilots can land and hide their planes in heavy brush in less than one minute...