Well news on many fronts (so to speak) today. Colin I am just beginning to peruse approximately 1000 pages of documents that I received today from my private researcher, Carolyn Billups. The section I just got to is yup you guessed it, information on Sicily. These particular docs are day-to-day journals from the landing and onward. I'm only a few days into them currently, but already found some interesting paragraphs. The journal is set as follows. Here is an example from Thursday, 15 July, 1943.
Station: Port of Licata, Sicily
Events: Col Marvin, Capt. Fizdale visited 1300B to 1430B. Major General Ridgeway, 82nd Airborne Division visited dock 1730B.
Work Done: Co's D & E:
Unloaded Vehicles / Troops Loaded Casualties / Prisoners
1-LCT)
6-LST) 308 3479 103 264
10-LCI)
1-Navy
Ponton
Barge)
Co's F & E:
Interior guard, Port area, cleaning up and misc. usual details, rations, water, sign painting, general maintenance of Port area.
Enemy Action: None
Weather: Clear, Warm.
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It's hard to make the numbers line up here, but the 4 numbers next to the LST's refer to the Unloaded Veh/Troops, then Loaded Cas/Prisoners
Proud Daughter of Walter (Monday) Poniedzialek
540th Engineer Combat Regiment, 2833rd Bn, H&S Co, 4th Platoon
There's "No Bridge Too Far"