With the beachheads well established, Eighth Army began to move up the coast, Syracuse being taken on 11 July and Augusta on 13 July. As the campaign developed, 327 LAA Bty was stationed at Syracuse under 62nd AA Bde and 329 LAA Bty at Augusta under 73rd AA Bde. Both ports received concentrated raids from the Luftwaffe, with divebombing and strafing attacks by Junkers Ju 88s, Messerschmitt Bf 109s and Focke-Wulf Fw 190s. The AA batteries had arrived with only an 'assault scale' of vehicles, and even these were taken away to help solve Eighth Army's transport crisis, so the units were static. Once the positions round Mount Etna had been outflanked and Catania had been captured, the Axis began withdrawing from Sicily on 11 August, and the campaign was over by 17 August. 327 LAA Battery moved up to join 329 Bty at Augusta.Molony, Vol V, pp. 77, 87, 158–68, 174–7, 179–82.Routledge, pp. 263–4.
