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...troops which took Randazzo were veterans of Tunisia: the U.S. 9th Division (not heretofore reported in Sicily) and the British 78th Division. The Americans, who had been fighting their way up the highway from Troina (see p. 30), were first to enter the town. They found it deserted and aflame, racked by explosions...
...Allied forces, too, had fought far better than in the Tunisian campaign, had reached a new peak of efficiency in their cooperation. The U.S. forces in particular showed, at Troina, at Randazzo and in their amphibious flanking movements on the northern coast, that they could take the best the Germans had to offer in the worst terrain they had yet seen, terrain in which their advantage in numbers hardly counted because large forces could not be brought into action...
Fiercest were the five days around Troina, a craggy road junction shielding the German position on Mt. Etna's northwest shoulder. The first combat team thrown against Troina by Major General Terry Allen's ist Infantry Division bounced back hard. German howitzers and mor tars skillfully held the hilltops. The ist Division massed its artillery, called in dive-bombers of the Tactical Air Force. For 72 hours the dust of an Allied barrage hung over the German emplacements. Then the ist Division smashed forward and through Troina...