Italian Memorials

[colinhotham]

My research on the island of Sicily in May this year was to locate and photograph the four private memorials to the involvement of US forces in Operation Husky. This was the campaign to capture Sicily from the Axis (The return to Europe in WW2)

 

This I succeeded to do with the help of Enzo a Sicillian taxi driver who I hired for a day and some Euros.

 

I am indebted to two other people:

Firstly Carole V Simpson, the office manager in the American Battle Monuments Commission Rome office.

Secondly the manager and staff of the Eremo della Giubiliana near Ragusa for helping me locate the C47 memorial.

 

If anyone is interested in the above photos please leave me a PM or email me.

 

Colin.