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of the coas of Italy. News reels of the day reported an air

and armored battle of some 57 hours preceded U.S. Gen.
George Patton going ashore to claim control of the port of

Gela in July 1943.

GALLERY

Samuel Hanna

TNS

“I was only jus turning 19,” Hanna says. “You’re at the

age where you think you’re immortal.” At Gela, he
remembers, “That was the mos scary one. It was my frs

real, actual combat…when you sart seeing people getting
killed.”