Sicily '43. James Holland

= landing zone

      ME = Middle East

      MG = Mobile Group

      MT = motor transport

      ops = operations

      Para = Parachute

      PG = Panzer Grenadier

      Pz = Panzer

      SRS = Special Raiding Squadron

      TF = Task Force

      TG = Tactical Group

      US = United States

      Planning in Lascaris, MaltaPatton on the beach at GelaPrimosole Bridge from the air6th West Kents in Adrano

      Principal Personalities

       American

       Major Mark Alexander

      Commander, 2nd Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division

       Staff Sergeant James Altieri

      Fox Company, 4th Ranger Battalion

       Lieutenant-General Omar M. Bradley

      Commander, II Corps

       Lieutenant John Mason Brown

      Journalist and US Navy Reserve officer serving on USS Ancon

       Lieutenant James M. ‘Jimmy’ Bruno

      Co-pilot, 99th Bomb Group

       Harry Butcher

      Naval aide to General Eisenhower

       Lieutenant Max Corvo

      Intelligence officer, Office of Strategic Services

       Lieutenant Charlie Dryden

      Pilot, 99th Fighter Squadron

       General Dwight D. Eisenhower

      Supreme Allied Commander, Mediterranean

       Lieutenant Warren ‘Bing’ Evans

      Company F, 3rd Battalion, Army Rangers

       Lieutenant Douglas Fairbanks Jr

      Serving on USS Monrovia

       Colonel James M. ‘Jim’ Gavin

      Commander, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment

       Private Eugene ‘Breezy’ Griffin

      HQ Company, 2nd Battalion, 41st Armored Infantry Regiment, 2nd Armored Division

       Captain Chester B. ‘Chet’ Hansen

      Aide to General Omar Bradley, II Corps HQ

       Lieutenant Franklyn A. Johnson

      Cannon Company, 3rd Battalion, 18th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division

       Corporal Audie Murphy

      B Company, 1st Battalion, 15th Infantry

       Lieutenant-General George S. Patton

      Commander, Seventh Army

       Ernie Pyle

      War correspondent for the Scripps Howard syndicate

       Sergeant Carl Rambo

      1st Platoon, Company B, 70th Light Tank Battalion

       Lieutenant Charlie Scheffel

      S-3 Staff Officer, 1st Battalion, 39th Infantry Regiment, 9th Infantry Division

       Lieutenant-General Carl ‘Tooey’ Spaatz

      Commander, USAAF North-West African Air Force

       Lieutenant Robert ‘Smoky’ Vrilakas

      P-38 pilot, 94th Fighter Squadron, 1st Fighter Group

       British

       General Sir Harold Alexander

      Commander-in-Chief, 15th Army Group

       Lieutenant-Colonel George Chatterton

      CO, Glider Pilot Regiment, Airlanding Brigade, 1st Airborne Division

       Corporal Bill Cheall

      6th Battalion the Green Howards, 69th Brigade, 5th Division

       Captain David Cole

      2nd