HG Assault Guns in Sicily (Updated for V5)*
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Date: July 17, 1943*                     
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Battle Type:  German defend versus British attack*
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Design: CB Blackard*
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Battle Description: On July 11, 1943, elements of the III. Battalion of the Hermann Goring Panzer Regiment under the leadership of Hauptmann Schmock crossed the Strait of Messina by Siebel ferry to engage the Allied forces advancing north through Sicily.  By July 16th, three 105mm assault howitzers of Leutnant Block's platoon (part of 10 Batterie) went into position in the Catania Plain behind a wall of earth left over from the digging of an anti-tank ditch in order to provide support for parachute troops of the HG 3rd Regiment.  On July 17th, British tanks attacked the position.*
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Source:  Kurowski, "The History of the Fallschirm Panzerkorps Hermann Goring", pp. 193-95*
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