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Twice the Italian garrison had been invited to surrender. Admiral Gino Pavesi, senior Italian officer, and his men clung to Pantelleria's 32 sq. mi. of volcanic rock. Each refusal increased the tempo of attack. First the Spadillo airfield was blown to bits. Then the island's one good harbor, a nest for E-boats and submarines harassing the Sicilian straits, was smashed. Low-flying planes bounced their bombs down ramps leading to underground hangars. "Pattern bombing" crushed gun emplacements...
...ridge cuts down the peninsula, its fog-hidden peaks rising at times to a height of 2,000 ft. Here the Japs dug in, under rock ledges and beside boulders, their machine guns cleverly camouflaged, their snipers posted at angles to protect the machine gunners. Jap strategy is plain: to die, but to take as many Americans with them as possible...
...many areas U.S. soldiers, summoned from training stations, labored for sleepless days & nights to rescue those marooned by flood. Other soldiers (7,000 in the Little Rock, Ark. area alone) toted sandbags in efforts, mostly futile, to strengthen levees. The presence of Axis war prisoners in Missouri was disclosed officially for the first time when gangs of men with great white initials "P.W." stenciled on the backs of their jackets and on their trouser legs, turned up to work on a levee near St. Genevieve...
Seventeen days out of their embarkation port, in the early subarctic dawn, crowded American troop transports raised the headlands of the bleak volcanic island. Mothered by destroyers, fleets of tank lighters nursed their way through rock-infested bays in fog so thick that a ship was blotted out 100 yards away...
...initial inventory of crude (443,000 tons) plus this year's expected crude imports (54,000 tons) and synthetic production (254,000 tons) add up to 751,000 tons. That means that the U.S. should have a margin of safety of 142,000 tons-42% more than the rock-bottom minimum working inventory that the military believes essential...