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Sicily 1943 - The debut of Allied joint operations (Paperback)
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Sicily 1943 - The debut of Allied joint operations (Paperback)
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Operation Husky, the Anglo-American amphibious landings on Sicily
in July 1943 were the proving ground for all subsequent Allied
amphibious operations including Salerno, Anzio, and D-Day in
Normandy. Husky's strategic objective was to knock Italy out of the
war, a mission that ultimately proved successful. But it also
demonstrated the growing ability of Britain and the United States
to conduct extremely complex combined-arms attacks involving not
only amphibious landings, but also airborne assaults. It was in
many ways the precursor of all modern joint operations through the
recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as two different armies and
navies with their own methods of command and control adjusted their
practices to conduct a harmonious operation. This stood in stark
contrast to the increasingly dysfunctional German-Italian alliance
which finally broke down on Sicily.
Not only did the Sicily operation represent a watershed in tactical
development of combined arms tactics, it was also an important test
for future Allied joint operations. Senior British commanders left
the North African theater with a jaundiced and dismissive view of
the combat capabilities of the inexperienced US Army after the
debacle at Kasserine Pass in Tunisia in February 1943. Sicily was a
demonstration that the US Army had rapidly learned its lessons and
was now capable of fighting as a co-equal of the British
Army.
The Sicily campaign contained a measure of high drama as Patton
took the reins of the Seventh US Army and bent the rules of the
theater commander in a bold race to take Palermo on the northern
Sicilian coast. Patton was determined to prove the ability of the
US Army after Kasserine in the hands of a skilled tactical
commander. When stiff German resistance halted Montgomery's main
assault to Messina through the mountains, Patton was posed to be
the first to reach the key Sicilian port and end the
campaign.
The Sicily campaign contains a fair amount of controversy as well
including the disastrous problems with early airborne assaults and
the Allied failure to seal the straits of Messina, allowing the
Germans to withdraw many of their best forces.
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