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(15) Ibid., p. 260; Fotter, Sea Power, p. 581.
(16) The quotation is from Morison, Naval Operations, IX, 28-29. For an excellent overall
campaign history of Sicily, see Carlo D'Este, Bitter Victory: the Battle for Sicily, 1943 (New York:
E. F. Dutton, 1988). Admiral Hewitt's own account appears in "N a val Aspects of the Sicilian
Campaign", U.S. Navallnstitute PreJs, vol. 79 (July 1953), 704-:23.
(17) Morison, Naval Operations, IX, 18-19, 28.
(18) Godson, Viking of Assault, p. 73-74; Morison, Naval Operations," IX, 117-19, 249-50;
Fotter, Sea Power, p. 583.
(19) Ibid., p. 74-75; Morison, Naval Operations, IX, 97-100, 105-09, 222.
(20) Morison, Naval Operations, 107-09.
(21) D'Este, Bitter Victory, p. 559, 563-64.
(22) Ibid., p. 551-52; Morison, Naval Operations, IX, 209-18, 220-21; Fotter, Sea Power, p.
593.
(23) D'Este, Bitter Victory, p. 307-09; Morison, Naval Operations, IX, 120-21; Fotter, Sea
Power, p. 592-93.
(24) Morison, Naval Operations, IX, 228-30, 247-51; Godson, Viking of Assault, p. 84-91;
Potter, Sea Power, p. 593-97. For a·popular account ofSalerno, see Eric Morris, Salerno: A Mili-
tary Fiasco (New York: Stein and Day, 1983).
(25) Godson, Viking of Assault, p. 92-94; Morison, Naval Operations, IX, 242-44, 252-53,
266, 270; Potter, Sea Power, p. 596-97.
(26) Morison, Naval Operations, IX, 254-304; Godson, Viking of Assault, p. 91-102; Fotter,
Sea Power, p. 597-600.
(27) Morison, Naval Operations, IX, 250-51; Godson, Viking of Assault, p. 94-97.
(28) Comprehensive coverage of the role of U.S. patrol boats in this campaign appears
in RobertJ. Bulkley, Jr., At Close Quarters: PT Boats in the United States Navy (Washington: N a val
History Division, 1962), p. 277-346.
(29) Carlo D'Este, Fatai Decision: Anzio and the Battle for Rome (New York: Harper-Collins,
1991), p. 400-07. See also Martin Blumenson, Anzio: The Gamble That Fai/ed (Fhiladelphia:
Lippincott, 1963) and F J. Lowry, "The N a val Side of che Anzio Campaign", U.S. Naval lnstitu-
te Proceedings, vol. 80 (January 1954), 23-51.
(30) Morison, Naval Operations, XI, 291.
(31) Morison, Naval Operations, Xl, 233-37, 244-46.
(32) Morison, Naval Operations, XI, 238-40, 248-50, 291-92. See also Ibid., IX, 249-50.
(33) An excellent overall appraisal appears in Alan F. Wilt, The French Riviera Campaign
of At1g11st 1944 (Carbondale: Sourhern Illinois University Press, 1981), p. 161-71. See also Ma·
rison, Naval Operations, XI, 289-92 and Potter, Sea Power, p. 621-23.
(34) Morison, Naval Operations, XI, 279-81, 291; Wilr, French Riviera Campaign, p. 161-63.
(35) Wilr, French Riviera Campaign, p. 164-71.