Original sentence: 18th Infantry Regiment had captured Mount Pellegrino which overlooked the Troina defenses allowing accurate direction of Allied artillery.By 7 August the U.During the battle they launched twenty-four medium-scale counterattacks and countless smaller local ones, in one of which Lieutenant-Colonel Gianquinto's 1st Battalion, 5th Regiment of the 'Aosta' managed to take 40 American prisoners.For six days the Italians and Germans stubbornly defended the position inflicting and taking heavy casualties.Patton began his assault on the line at Troina on 31 July, but it was a linchpin of the defense and stubbornly held by the 15th Panzer Grenadier Division.The defenders' left flank was also becoming exposed as the adjacent Hermann Goering Division was pushed back by XXX Corps and they were, as a result, ordered to withdraw that night in phases to the defensive positions of the Tortorici Line.The remnants of the Aosta Division had also been pulled back to Troina to assist in the defensive preparations
Edited sentence: Much to Patton's disbelief, the Italians and Germans launched an incredible number of medium-scale and local counterattacks, in which Lieutenant-Colonel Gianquinto's 1st Battalion, 5th Regiment of the 'Aosta' managed to take 40 American prisoners.Patton began his assault on the line at Troina, but it was a linchpin of the defense and stubbornly held by the 15th Panzer Grenadier Division and the Aosta Division