The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 (The Liberation Trilogy) by Rick Atkinson


  Clark’s obsession with

  coup vs. Mussolini in

  DIADEM and Clark’s drive to capture

  DIADEM plan and

  German occupation of

  German retreat from

  GIANT II proposed drop in

  HUSKY and

  Ike and

  liberation of

  as main objective

  secret mission to, and Italian surrender

  troop morale and

  winter campaign and

  Rome, ancient

  Romine, Micky T.

  Rommel, Gen. Erwin

  Rommel, Lucie

  Roosevelt, Anna

  Roosevelt, Eleanor (wife of FDR)

  Roosevelt, Eleanor (wife of Ted)

  Roosevelt, Col. Elliott

  Roosevelt, Franklin D.

  Anzio and

  assessment of Italian campaign and

  blacks in armed forces and

  Cairo and Teheran conferences and

  Casablanca conference and

  Churchill and

  Four Freedoms speech of

  gas warfare and

  Ike and OVERLORD and

  ill health of

  Italian overtures for peace and

  liberation of Rome and

  Mussolini and

  OSS and

  Patton and

  postwar world envisioned by

  Quebec conference and

  Rome as objective and

  TRIDENT and

  Roosevelt, Franklin, Jr.

  Roosevelt, Brig. Gen. Theodore, Jr.

  Rossini, Gioachino

  Rostov

  Rowan, S.S.

  Royal Ulsterman

  Royle, P.

  Rudolph Wurlitzer Company

  Ruskin, John


  Ryder, Maj. Gen. Charles W. “Doc”

  Saar, bombing of

  Sahara (film)

  St. David (hospital ship)

  Salerno. See also AVALANCHE

  history of

  landings in

  Samuel Chase, U.S.S.

  Samuel J. Tilden, S.S.

  San Carlo Opera Company

  Sangro River

  San Pietro (documentary)

  San Pietro Infine

  Santa Maria Infante

  Sant’Angelo

  Saracens

  Sardinia

  Saturday Evening Post

  Sauer, Col. Paul

  Savannah, U.S.S.

  Sayer, Capt. Edwin M.

  Schaefer, Lt. Col. William H.

  Schaffhausen, Switzerland, bombing of

  Scharnhorst (German battleship), sinking of

  Schenectady Plan

  “Schiller, Father”

  Schlegel, Lt. Col. Julius

  Schmalz, Gen. Wilhelm

  Scholastica, St.

  Schweinfurt, battle of

  Scipio Africanus

  Scoglitti

  Scott, Sir Walter

  SEALION, Operation

  SEATRAIN, Operation

  Seattle Post-Intelligencer

  Secret Service

  Segan, Lt. William J.

  Sele River corridor (BRYAN)

  Seneca

  Senger und Etterlin, Fridolin von

  Sentinel, U.S.S.

  Seraph, H.M.S. (submarine)

  Sevareid, Eric

  Sevastopol, battle of

  SHAEF (Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force)

  Shakespeare, William

  Shakespeare, H.M.S.

  Shapiro, Lionel

  Shaw, George Bernard

  Shelley, Percy Bysshe

  Sherman, Gen. William T.

  Sherman tanks

  SHINGLE. See also Anzio

  Rapido attacks planned to precede

  shipping

  Shit Corner

  Shoemaker’s Holiday, The (film)

  Shubrick, U.S.S.

  Shunstrom, Capt. Charles M.

  Sicily. See also HUSKY

  Allied occupation of, under Patton

  Casablanca and decision to invade

  code named HORRIFIED

  history and geography of

  Hitler-Mussolini meeting on

  invasion and capture of

  Mussolini deposed during campaign in

  Patton’s expectation of death in

  plan for aftermath of

  Sicily-Rome American Cemetery

  Sieckenius, Gen. Rudolf

  Sing as We Go (film)

  Skorzeny, Capt. Otto

  Slessor, Air Marshal Sir John

  Smith, Al

  Smith, E. D.

  Smith, Kate

  Smith, Lt. Gen. Walter B. “Beetle”

  Smuts, Jan

  SNAFU, expansion of

  Snakeshead Ridge

  Snowden, Frank M.

  Sobieski (Polish liner)

  Social Life of Monkeys and Apes, The (Zucherman)

  soldiers

  Anzio stalemate and

  battle fatigue or shell shock

  impact of combat on psychology of

  lessons of Italian campaign for

  morale problems and

  Naples I&I and

  Pyle on

  Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., on

  “Soldier’s Guide to Sicily, The”

  Solomon Islands

  Somaliland

  Somervell, Gen. Brehon B.

  Sousa, Capt. Benjamin Harrison

  South African 6th Armoured Division

  South African 12th Brigade

  South African troops

  Southern, George

  Soviet Union (Russia)

  Spain

  Spanish Armada

  Spartacus

  Spencer, Air Commodore

  spies

  Sprague, John F.

  Stalin, Joseph

  Stalingrad, battle of

  Stalker, H.M.S.

  Stark, Carole

  Stark, Pvt. Arthur E. “Sticks”

  Stars and Stripes

  Steady, U.S.S.

  Steere, Lt. Comm. Richard C.

  Steinbeck, John

  Stendahl

  Stevens, Lt. Will

  Stevenson, Coke

  Stewart, Jimmy

  Stillwell, Lt. Gen. Joseph W.

  Stimson, Henry L.

  Stoler, Mark A.

  Stone, Phillip H.

  Story of G.I. Joe, The (film)

  Stovall, Col. Oran C.

  Stradling, John S.

  Strange Cargo (film)

  STRANGLE air campaign

  Strathnaver, H.M.S.

  Strong, Brig. Kenneth W.E.

  Suez Canal

  Sulzberger, C. L.

  Summersby, Kathleen Helen “Kay”

  supplies and logistics

  Supreme Allied Commander, Mediterranean

  Sway, U.S.S.

  Switzerland, bombing of

  Syracuse

  Tabacchificio Fioche

  Tacitus

  Talamba (hospital ship)

  Tangiers

  Taylor, Brig Gen. Maxwell D.

  Téboura, battle of

  Tedder, Air Marshal Arthur

  Teheran conference

  Templer, Maj. Gen. G.W.R.

  Testbank (freighter)

  This Is the Army (musical)

  Thomas, St.

  Thucydides

  Tidwell, Pvt. Riley

  Tillman, U.S.S.

  Time

  Times (London)

  Tintoretto

  Titian

  Toffey, Anne

  Toffey, Helen

  Toffey, John, Jr.

  Toffey, John, Sr.

  Toffey, Lt. Col, John J. “Jack” III

  Toffey, John IV

  Tompkins, Peter

  TORCH

  Torrente Saraceni (Dead Man’s Gulch)

  Tosca (opera)

  “total war”

  Trafalgar, battle of

  Trajan

  Treg
askis, Richard

  trench foot

  Trevelyan, Lt. Raleigh

  TRIDENT conference

  Tripoli

  Troina

  Truman, Harry S.

  Truscott, Maj. Gen. Lucian K., Jr.

  aftermath of Italian campaign and

  background of

  Cisterna and

  death of Toffey and

  DIADEM and

  HUSKY and

  Italian winter campaign and

  liberation of Rome and

  Memorial Day 1945 speech by

  Rapido assault and

  replaces Lucas to command VI Corps, at Anzio

  SHINGLE and

  succeeds Clark to command Fifth Army

  Truscott, Sarah Randolph

  Tucker, Col. Reuben H.

  Tuker, Maj. Gen. Francis

  Tunis, battle of

  Tunisia

  FDR meets with Ike at

  Tunisian campaign

  TURTLE, Operation

  typhoid

  U-boats

  Uganda, H.M.S.

  Ultra intercepts

  Ulysses

  Umberto, Crown Prince of Italy

  Unicorn, H.M.S.

  Union Army, Civil War

  United Nations

  United States

  FDR’s vision of role of

  postwar world and

  war supplies provided to Britain

  U.S. 1st Armored Division “Old Ironsides”

  U.S. 1st Infantry Division “Big Red One”

  U.S. 1st Ranger Battalion

  U.S. 1st Special Service Force (SSF)

  U.S. II Corps

  U.S. 2nd Armored Division

  U.S. 2nd Cavalry Division

  U.S. 3rd Infantry Division

  U.S. Third Army

  U.S. IV Corps

  U.S. Fifth Army

  Anzio and

  assessment of Italian campaign and

  AVALANCHE and

  Cassino and

  Clark appointed to command

  Clark’s frictions with officers in

  DIADEM and

  liberation of Rome and

  Naples I&I and

  Operations Instructions No. 24

  Rapido and

  song

  Truscott replaces Clark as commander of

  Winter Line and

  U.S. 6th Armored Infantry Regiment

  U.S. VI Corps

  Field Order No. 20

  U.S. Seventh Army

  U.S. 7th Infantry Regiment

  U.S. Eighth Air Force

  U.S. 9th Infantry Division

  U.S. 10th Mountain Division

  U.S. 12th Weather Squadron

  U.S. 13th Field Artillery Brigade

  U.S. Fifteenth Air Force

  U.S. 15th Infantry Regiment

  U.S. 16th Infantry

  U.S. 17th Bomber Group

  U.S. 17th Field Artillery

  U.S. 18th Infantry

  U.S. 19th Combat Engineers

  U.S. 26th Infantry Regiment

  U.S. 30th Infantry Regiment

  U.S. 34th Infantry Division

  U.S. 36th Division

  U.S. 39th Infantry Regiment

  U.S. 45th Infantry Division (Thunderbirds)

  U.S. 60th Infantry

  U.S. 81st Armored Reconnaissance Battalion

  U.S. 82nd Airborne Division

  U.S. 83rd Chemical Mortar Battalion

  U.S. 85th Division

  U.S. 88th Division

  U.S. 92nd Infantry Division

  U.S. 93rd Infantry Division

  U.S. 99th Fighter Squadron (Separate, Tuskeegee airmen)

  U.S. 111th Medical Battalion

  U.S. 132nd Field Artillery Battalion

  U.S. 133rd Infantry Regiment

  U.S. 135th Infantry Regiment

  U.S. 141st Infantry Regiment

  U.S. 142nd Infantry Regiment

  U.S. 143rd Infantry Regiment

  U.S. 151st Field Artillery

  U.S. 157th Infantry Regiment

  U.S. 158th Field Artillery Battalion

  U.S. 168th Infantry Regiment

  U.S. 179th Infantry Regiment

  U.S. 180th Infantry Regiment

  U.S. 189th Field Artillery Battalion

  U.S. 191st Tank Battalion

  U.S. 351st Infantry Regiment

  U.S. 504th Parachute Infantry

  U.S. 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment

  U.S. 753rd Tank Battalion

  U.S. 760th Tank Battalion

  U.S. 6615th Ranger Force

  U.S. 6681st Signal Pigeon Company

  U.S. Army Air Forces

  Tuskeegee airmen and

  U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

  U.S. Army Medical Forms

  U.S. Army Signal Corps

  U.S. Congress

  U.S. Force X

  U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff

  U.S. JOSS Force

  U.S. Marine Corps

  U.S. National Guard

  U.S. Naval Institute

  U.S. Navy

  U.S. Ranger battalions

  urban warfare

  Valiant

  Valletta

  Valmontone

  Van Doren, Carl

  Vatican

  Vaughan-Thomas, Wynford

  Velletri

  Venafro

  venereal disease

  Vera Cruz, assault of 1857

  Verdala Palace

  Verdun

  Vesuvius

  eruption of

  Via Anziate

  Via Rasella ambush

  Vichy French

  Victor Emmanuel III, King of Italy

  Vietinghoff, Gen. Heinrich von

  Virgil

  Vita, Sgt. John

  Vittoria

  Vokes, Maj. Gen. Christopher

  Volturno River

  Vulcan, H.M.S.

  Walker, Maj. Gen. Fred L.

  Wallace, Henry A.

  Walpole, Horace

  Walters, Vernon A.

  War and Peace (Tolstoy)

  War Department

  segregation of armed forces and

  Warlimont, Gen. Walter

  War Manpower Commission

  war production

  Germany

  US

  War Production Board

  Warspite, H.M.S.

  Washington, D.C.

  Washington Daily News

  Washington Post

  Washington Times-Herald

  Waskow, Capt. Henry T.

  Watson, Pa

  Waugh, Evelyn

  WEBFOOT exercise

  Welker, Robert H.

  Welles, Orson

  Wellington, Duke of

  Wentzell, Maj. Gen. Fritz

  West, Sgt. Horace T.

  Western Front, WW I

  Western Front, WW II

  Westmoreland, Lt. Col. William C.

  Westphal, Gen. Siegfried

  What to Do Aboard the Transport

  Whitehead, Don

  Whittier, John Greenleaf

  Wilbur, Brig. Gen. William H.

  Wilbur, Richard

  Wild Palms, The (Faulkner)

  Wilhelm, John M.

  Wilhelm II, Kaiser of Germany

  Wilhelmina, Queen of the Netherlands

  William D. Porter, U.S.S.

  William the Bad

  William the Good

  Wilson, Field Marshal Henry Maitland “Jumbo”

  Winter Line

  Wolfe, Gen. James

  Women’s Home Companion

  Woodpecker (German army code)

  World War I

  World War II. See also specific campaigns, operations, and places

  blacks in U.S. Army and

  brutality of total war grows

  end of, foreseen by Churchill in Carthage

  lessons of

  maps of campaigns, and job and time needed to win

  Wright, John G.

 
; Wyatt, Lt. Col. Aaron A., Jr.

  Yamamoto, Adm. Isokoru

  Yellow Line

  Ypres

  Yugoslavia

  Zama

  Zetland, H.M.S.

  Zuckerman, Solly

  Zuehlke, Mark

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  RICK ATKINSON was a staff writer and senior editor at The Washington Post for more than twenty years. He is the best-selling author of An Army at Dawn, The Long Gray Line, In the Company of Soldiers, and Crusade. His many awards include Pulitzer Prizes for journalism and history. He lives in Washington, D.C.

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  Library of Congress Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

  Atkinson, Rick.

  The day of battle: the war in Sicily and Italy, 1943–1944 / Rick Atkinson.—1st ed.

  p. cm.—(The liberation trilogy; v. 2)

  Includes bibliographical references and index.

  ISBN: 978-0-8050-6289-2

  1. World War, 1939–1945—Campaigns—Italy. 2. Italy—History, Military—1914–1945.

  I. Title.

  D763.I8A85 2007

  940.54'215—dc22

  2007007653

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  Maps by Gene Thorp

 


 

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