Salt Lake Telegram | 1943-07-16 | Page 4 | Italians Charge Nazis Lay Mines at Backs

I Italians Charge Nazis Lay Mines at of t Backs ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN TN NORTH AFRICA July 16 Pi P Italian prisoners are complaining bitterly of the system of defense in Sicily by which they were put in the front line with a German minefield laid at their backs They said the Germans refused to tell them where the mines were located and remained well to the rear while the Italians had to bear the first shock of the allied attack