https://elizabethmesa.net/lettershome daily 0.75 2025-12-16 https://elizabethmesa.net/lettershome/november-1943 monthly 0.5 2024-07-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/652b430a7ea1df37ad02d0d3/5322f37b-5e28-419c-8e40-c0d15de7ba28/Movements%2C+November+43.png Letters Home: A Journey through Sicily & Italy in World War II - November 1943 - Make it stand out 189th Field Artillery Movements, November 1943. 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(4) https://elizabethmesa.net/lettershome/september-1943 monthly 0.5 2025-07-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/652b430a7ea1df37ad02d0d3/70a7d255-51ae-4015-8b75-ad2df841c06f/45th+Loading+for+Salerno.jpeg Letters Home: A Journey through Sicily & Italy in World War II - September 1943 - Make it stand out The 45th Infantry Division, minus C Battery, 189th Field Artillery Battalion loading for Salerno, Italy. (1) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/652b430a7ea1df37ad02d0d3/432d4707-2711-417e-98a5-ed57f40a0d02/Salerno+and+Sicily.png Letters Home: A Journey through Sicily & Italy in World War II - September 1943 - Make it stand out The trip between Sicily and Salerno took two days by boat with a distance of 350 Kilometers/216 Miles. 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This was the largest U. S. piece of artillery in Sicily. A 71/2-ton 6 x 6 prime mover truck towing a gun into position. (155-mm. gun with standard carriage.)” (1) While I cannot say this is Dean’s unit, his Battery did fire 155-mm artillery pieces. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/652b430a7ea1df37ad02d0d3/f7b0462b-9d15-4fbe-9710-4bb41d9b1bda/Firing+in+an+orchard.png Letters Home: A Journey through Sicily & Italy in World War II - August 1943 - Make it stand out A Field Artillery Battery firing in an orchard, unknown location in Sicily, 1943 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/652b430a7ea1df37ad02d0d3/88e1ff0e-6271-454b-b14e-36252fa3e57d/Trabia.png Letters Home: A Journey through Sicily & Italy in World War II - August 1943 - Make it stand out Map showing location of Trabia, Sicily: where the 189th Field Artillery spent the latter half of August. https://elizabethmesa.net/lettershome/22-31-july-1943-in-sicily monthly 0.5 2025-07-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/652b430a7ea1df37ad02d0d3/b3fe5a48-5e26-47dd-8d6c-fd6c654d349f/Sicily+Landings+-+Public+Domain.jpeg Letters Home: A Journey through Sicily & Italy in World War II - 22-31 July 1943 - In Sicily - Make it stand out Landings on Sicily. Note the 45th Infantry assigned to the beaches at Scoglitti. 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