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I found a few references to the encounter below and copy and pasted it in.
The Primosole Bridge south of Catania, Sicily, 13-14 July 1943: The bridge over the Simeto River was necessary for a quick resolution to the 8th Army's campaign across the island of Sicily. It fell to the British 1st Airborne Brigade to take the Primosole bridge, with the 3rd Commando to take the smaller bridge at the Ponte dei Malati a few miles south. As the brigade's planes neared the Sicilian coast they ran into serious trouble. Allied warships of the invasion fleet, which had been bombed t hat very night, opened up on the hapless air fleet. The ensuing confusion wreaked havoc on the planned paradrops and only a small force under Colonel Pearson managed to land and assemble in the assigned drop zone. The Germans had been alerted to a potential Allied paradrop and had airlifted and paradropped elements of the 3rd Regiment, 1st Fallschirmjaeger Division to the Catania aerodrome the day before the Allied offensive began. The Germans, under Captain Schmidt of the 1st MG Battalion, quickly deployed south of the bridge in preparation for an attack.
AFTERMATH: Captain Schmidt had set his defenses directly along the path of the Allied air attack. During the course of the paradrop, several gliders were shot down by a well-sited machingun fire from the Johnny positions. Nonetheless, a small group of 250 Red Devils easily captured the bridge from its Italian defenders. In the morning, the Fallschirmjaegers counterattacked. The fighting was intense with bitter hand-to-hand melees in the farmhouses and vineyards of the surrounding countryside. As the pressure mounted, the British were forced to withdraw to positions southwest of the bridge. The battered British paras would have to wait for reinforcements.
