Ohio etc.
19 year old ex-brat Haraka Senior saw the Ohio come in as well as the arrival of the Spitfires, which was not as shown in the film ( not unexpectedly ,they arrived in one's and two's) . There were invasion alerts running up and down the scale all the time, 24 hours being declared likely on several occasions. Sicily of course was closely watched as a leaping off point for an airborne assault , and with AAA at time being rationed to five rounds per day.
Then there were the little known Spitfire "invisible" bomb racks designed to convince the opposition that a bomber force existed on the island.....