Keeping Up Pressure On Catania -- Stripped to the waist, British gunners lever their gun into position on the Catania front. At the time this picture was taken Sicily was experiencing a full-summer heat wave. Catania front,. focus of fighting in Sicily. The 8th. Army is enlarging its bridgehead in spite of all enemy opposition, and steadily increasing pressure is being applied along the whole 8th. Army and U.S. front. August 04, 1943. (Photo by British Official Photograph)