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Hello, and thank you for listening to the history of World War II podcast, episode 592, friendly fire massacre.

Last time General Patton's 7th Army came ashore along Sicily's southern coast. And though there were American deaths, combat-related, or simply mistakes made, before July 10th was over, the cities of

Lakata, Skagliti, and Gala were in allied hands, within a bridgehead of 8 by 15 miles long.

But with Operation Husky launched, now it was the

axis turn to react. This was far from over. The Germans doing their due diligence knew of the number

of ships coming at them, and mostly what they carried. And with the reports of peridroops's coming down at 5 a.m. July 10th in the

island's southeastern corner, it was time to deploy their troops. At a high level, the access

defensive plan was threefold. First, contained the beachheads while reinforcements came

from mainland Italy. Second, while waiting for help

to use the forces currently on the island to drive the invaders back into the Mediterranean Sea.

But if the first two failed, then to hold open through direct combat, their escape route,

namely the Straits of Messina. However, step one was clearly failing,

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