British and U.S. bombers coursing over the Mediterranean last week outlined the next Allied objective. If the pattern of the bombings meant anything, it was to be a two-part objective: the island of Sicily and, just across the Strait of Messina, the southern toe of Italy.
Malta and the Middle East Air Command in Egypt and Libya sent bombers against southern Italy and over Sicily's eastern coast, where the Siculi, the Phoenicians and the Greeks began the island's long cycle of invasion. American Fortresses, medium bombers, fighter-bombers and night-flying British Wellingtons attacked...
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