My friend from http://www.dogfacesoldiers.com, sent me the following PDF file written by Ernie Pyle on the 10th Engineers at Point Calava.
Here are a few words from Denis regarding the article etc.
Marion:
...I attached the Ernie Pyle story (a 3.2 mb pdf - five pages) ... feel free to post it to your site ... this is a pretty spectacular story that happened long before the Normandy landings in Sicily ... Pyle was with the 45th I.D. but followed the Third towards Palermo ... it was during this time that the Third Division made two regimental amphibious landings (I think both by the 30th) to speed up the slow pace on the north coast road ... if you have seen the movie Patton, the division was hastened by the General in his effort to best Montgomery into Messina ... it was a bloody affair, and not one remembered with grace towards ol' Blood and Guts ... I am not sure if Point Calava or Cape Calava was before or after Brolo (the second landing), I believe it was after ... anyways, a great story and, incidentally, one of the five photographers from my site's story was present at this event ... Howard Nickelson when he was still with the 10th Engineers
I added a section on Anzio from Howard's pictures and a definitive story by Howard about how the photo team was born at Anzio
http://www.dogfacesoldiers.org/anzio
http://www.dogfacesoldiers.org/info/fuzzy.htm
enjoy,
Denis
Marion's Note: I added a page to the beginning of the article telling folks that the article's title erroneously states that it was 1944. The Invasion of Sicily occured in 1943 as did the building of the bridge in Calava.
Proud Daughter of Walter (Monday) Poniedzialek
540th Engineer Combat Regiment, 2833rd Bn, H&S Co, 4th Platoon
There's "No Bridge Too Far"