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...midmorning the U.S. Seventh and the British Eighth Armies had entered Messina in force. Then from the pine-covered hills on the Italian mainland, three and a half miles across the Strait, German big guns lobbed over their shells. Quickly the bulk of the Allied troops withdrew from the city...
...British airman last week coasted high over the Messina Strait between Sicily and the Italian mainland on a mission of photoreconnaissance. The air was clear and still, visibility unlimited. Looking out, the pilot could see the length & breadth of Sicily and, on the other side, the full expanse of the Italian toe. Between the two, the narrow straits looked "so small you could jump across them-a blue ditch...
...British, who had circled Etna from Catania, joined them soon afterward. From the twisting mountain roads they could see, far in the distance, the shimmering blue of the Messina Strait...
...Seventh started an offensive. Within a week the generals and their men had cracked the enemy line from Mt. Etna to the Tyrrhenian Sea. Harried by land, sea and by air, the Germans fell back toward Messina's crescent beach. Less than four miles across the treacherous strait lay one castlecrowned heights of Italy...
From the separate but coordinated Middle East Air Command, Liberators crossed the Mediterranean and struck Naples, the airdromes of Foggia and the ferry terminal at Reggio Calabria, where supplies are shunted across the Strait of Messina to Sicily. To give the Italians more trouble, the Liberators set a forest ablaze with incendiary bombs. Middle Eastern Liberators also attacked the island itself, joining Fortresses and medium bombers from western Africa in a 24-hour raid on Messina, the Sicilian terminus of the ferry run. Night-bombing Wellingtons, and heavy, medium and fighter-bombers by day, kindled and rekindled the fires...