Talk:Battle of Troina

The Italian troops at Troina.
4 Italian battalions of the division "Aosta" were involved in the battle of Troina.

Clarification
"The strength of the German position prompted him to try and outflank it by an amphibious end run." This rather curious sentence first appears in the 'background' section, para 7. What is an "amphibious end run"? It seems to mean a type of amphibious assault, as mentioned further down the page. Whatever it means, it could do with a spot of clarification. RASAM (talk) 23:01, 18 April 2010 (UTC)

That entire last paragraph in the battle section should be deleted. It does not concern the battle of Troina at all, but rather concerns the concurrent fighting along the North Coast road. Troina was an inland city along highway 120 and due the the terrain was pretty well isolated from the fighting to the North. Ending the section on the battle on unrelated fighting to the North is confusing to say the least. Neither amphibious end runs nor amphibious assaults had anything to do with the assault on the inland hilltop town of Troina. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:8802:3600:89:582A:B1BD:A8DD:46D8 (talk) 09:34, 2 April 2020 (UTC)

Allied Victory
This battle as described in “Sicily and the Surrender of Italy” by Lt. Col. Albert Garland and Howard Smyth (the Green Book official US Army history) has a detailed description of this battle. The Axis objective was not to hold the town, but was rather to delay, buy time, and inflict casualties. Troina was a perfect place to do this as the hilly terrain caused the approaches from Cerami to be exposed and the exit road out of town was protected by a ridge. The Axis held up the 1st division advance for several days and inflicted heavy casualties, then slipped away to erect yet another line of defense at Cesaro. It seems to me the Axis accomplished its goal and gave the Allies a bloody nose in the process. I have looked for casualty figures associated with this battle but have not found anything specific. However, it seems pretty clear that the Allies were roughly handled. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:8802:3600:89:582A:B1BD:A8DD:46D8 (talk) 09:24, 2 April 2020 (UTC)