35 hand grenades from some dead Italian soldiers, together with fellow teenager Rosario Cacciatore, the son of the keeper of the Parco delle Rimembranze (Remembrance Park), and 20-year-old Ferdinando Incardona, son of a grocer, the вЂњoldestвЂќ of the three. During the battle of Gela Zafarana, who at the time was a teenager, had retrieved some SRCM. This little mystery would be explained more than sixty years later to the local historian Rosario Medoro by Francesco Zafarana, one of the вЂњsnipersвЂќ that had been in the tower back in вЂ™43. When the Rangers broke into the bell tower, however, they found nobody inside only an empty case of hand grenades was laying at the top of the tower. Darby went to the spot and found two platoons of Rangers in front of the church, along with an Italian American NCO who was shouting in Sicilian dialect to those in the bell tower to come down from that sacred place. I know the following episodes during the invasion of Sicily in July 1943, not sure if they suit your definition:ДЎ) during the battle of Gela on 10 July, after the town had been captured and before the failed Axis counterattacks, Colonel William Orlando Darby was informed that there were snipers on the bell tower of the Chiesa Madre.

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