XXXI
The action of the paratroopers drove the marines back, but they were still fighting. They went up the narrow and dusty lane that led from the village of Scillato to the bailey of the heirs Cipolla.
Major Joseph Vincent Luciano always marched at the head. From the beginning of the Husky operation, the allied landing in Sicily, he and his men were the most advanced point of the seventh army. He already knew the Nazi tactic and he was aware they were to leave. Despite this, he was looking for the contact to avenge himself for the guys cut down by the MG42 gunshots and the tank drivers burnt alive inside the tanks, perforated by the bullets of the Panzerfaust, the Teutonic version of the bazooka.
He reached a broad esplanade, about a hectare of land left empty and surrounded by tall cy
