TERRIBLE COUNTRY
TRAVERSED BY ATTACKING TROOPS JUMBLED VOLCANIC ROCKS. ON APPROACHES TO RANDAZZO. ‘.(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) f LONDON, August 11. The “Manchester Guardian” correspondent in Sicily describes the terrain over which the British and American troops are attacking as “terrible.” It is in the main composed of jumbled volcanic rocks. Men who have to crawl over the ground to attack, he says, say that the lava surface tears flesh from their hands and knees. Randazzo is situated at the top of a cone-shaped eminence. "Once it is captured he advance will be over gentlyundulating country which slopes down to the sea 20 miles away.
The men of the Eighth Army attacking Randazzo are typical British infantry, the correspondent says. “Short men, with no fat on them, they carry Bren gqns on their shoulders and sling
boxes of grenades between them as they move forward to the line of battle with a hang-dog look on their faces — the eternal, unchanging, unbeatable British infantry.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 August 1943, Page 3
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