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s■ft !Y anks T ake Messina, Nazis Flee to Italy; T urin Hit F rom HereI .S. Fong Toms’ Shell Mainland With Navy, Air Forces; Leaflets Announce Next Raid 48 Hours in AdvanceSicily became Allied territory yesterday—the first tower of Germany'sEuropean fortress to topple under the onslaught of overwhelming Allied land, sea and air power.An official announcement at Allied headquarters last night that Americantroops had captured Messina and all resistance was at an end rang downthe curtain five weeks and four days after the first landings.Sicily’s fall was a signal for intensification of the assault on Italy itself.While American Long Tom 155mm. guns hurled shells at the coastaldefenses dotting the Messina Straits, Allied warships bombarded both sidesof the Italian “toe*’ and bombers as far separated as Britain and the MiddleEast smashed at the industrial city oi Turin and the vital airfields around Foggia.
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London Stars and Stripes
London, Middlesex, GB
Wed, Aug 18, 1943
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