Out of an obscured campaign came a clear description of Wehrmacht defenses, along the Monte Samucre sector of the Fifth Army front. Wrote the New York Herald Tribune's Homer Bigart:
First Class. "The pillboxes were 70 yards apart and built into rock and were amazingly well camouflaged. They were of two sizes. The four-by-fours contained machine-gun nests, the ten-by-tens hid each a mortar. The roofs were of railroad ties and rails buried under a two-foot layer of broken stone. The approaches were sown with the German anti-personnel mines.
"These pillboxes seemed immune to American artillery. . . . Some must have suffered direct...
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