Operation Husky - The Invasion of Sicily 1943 (Documentary)

Seems to me like some system that can tell your AA guns on the ground "that's a friendly bomber/transport" would save as many lives as like, armor or more guns would. Hah Like, geez laweez. 24 of 144 planes lost to friendly fire. All full with a dozen plus men. There's like a hundred in a modern transport.

Was there not Canadian soldiers involved in the invasion of Sicily?

Ugly war

We all have a lot to thank Britain for!

lol italians. they dont even fight for their own country...

My father was in the 82nd Airborne in this jump landing in the first wave and fighting through to Palermo. He would go on to Salerno, Anzio, Waal, and Chenaux.

"Poor old 7th R.M. Never have so many been buggered about by so few"
I must say I love the sarcasm, paraphrasing Churchill.

Bungled military leaders think they are playing a war game.
Montgomery is just as bad if not worse than Kitchener the butcher of WW1

British Glider drops NEVER go to plan. 80 percent of their high losses are from mechanical issues and misdrops. Operation Gunnerside had a 100 percent fatality rate

Ty for acknowledging the Allied massacre of Axis troops. This stuff is rarely covered and is often swept under the rug. Both sides committed heinous crimes we should never forget.

Il primo tentativo di Patton fallì, pensava che gli Italiani sarebbero fuggiti...aveva pensato male. Solo grazie al massiccio bombardamento navale riuscì a infiltrarsi. Il popolo italiano non è mai quel che sembra...ora è pecora...ora è leone.

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The Allies were fighting for Communism.

Sounds like oversimplified guy

They should not have invaded Sicily. Sad for Italians.

Your visuals person seems to have forgotten the 1st Canadian Division stuck in the middle of nowhere, which is 'nowhere' near the truth !!!

Why the persistent references to "inexperienced" troops?? Hadn't the Germans been recently defeated in Africa?? Particularly the recent surrender of super genius uebermensch Rommel... it was Operation TORCH where the Americans were "rookies", that defeated Rommel. To wit: 32nd Field Artillery Battalion, 1st ID.
Regardless that "Genius" Monty being afforded overwhelmingly excessive resources, His Market Garden plan turned out to become a Monty Python fiasco.

The British were weak

When they do the tally at the start you like ok ok ok then 4000 aircraft ,

Galipoly season2 😂

In the war museum in Malta, there's a big section to the Marocchinate of the North African troops under French command in the aftermath of operation Husky. The (g)rapes. Should be mentioned because of the scale.

In your breakdown of forces you missed the fact Canada was a part of the allied invasion. 🍻

Im surprised no one camed from Mafia II

Please don't over=extent the Germans in Sicily; of course remnants of the Afrika Korps who survived the annihilation of Tunis, somewhat made it to Sicily; the main enemy was Italy, not Germany, and throughout the initial invasive, that was the Main Concern, how hard would Italy Fight, and they did according to their forces of indoctrination at that time. Germany was consumed in Russia. Objective: knock Italy out of the War; only partial corrective, fascist fought till 1945..

For a species whose most primal instinct is survival, we sure do a lot of killing.

My great uncle was a Canadian combat engineer. For whatever reason, his unit was attached to the British army. He went through operation Husky and then up the east side of Italy with them.
Bad PTSD for years afterward. I only met him once when I was very young. Much respect for his memory.

What if all italian fleet had enough oil and was utilized against the allied navy?

My late Dad after fighting at both battles of El Alamein was in the invasion of Sicily.
He told me he his best friend and someone else, went onto a beach at night to get some biscuits of an American truck tvst had been damaged. This part of the beach was cordoned off due to being in range of German mortars and he wasn’t supposed to go there. However is friend “Geordie McGee” was killed when a mortar exploded near the truck. Often in later years he would talk about his friend and welled up. 😢

Thank you for another excellent historical documentary. Patton was an interesting fellow, to say the least. I would like to learn more about his various escapades. I would enjoy future videos with more on the Italian theater, too!
God be with you out there, everybody. ✝️ :)

Patton wanted to keep going and defeat the Russians. They should have let him.

Patton was a Warrior, he did not want the politics. placating was not a strong suit of GSP

I remember when the internet wasn't advertisements every 2 seconds, I miss that.

Paten left his men in the Philippines.

Watching this video and I thinking I'm playing MOH Airborne, Chapter name Title "HUSKY" on ps3.......... the music? reminds me of the load out scene! where did you get it? do u have a score name?

That's an excellent episode. That one starts the downfall of Benito Mussolini (Fastic Italian dictator).

The Canadians weren't squeezed out of the line until just west of Etna, the map shows the Canadians sitting in south sicily doing nothing. Not good.

The Commandos were insane.

Fantastic documentary! The detail and storytelling truly bring Operation Husky to life. A great balance of strategy, history, and personal accounts—well-researched and incredibly engaging!

My dad, now 88, was on the beach that day with his mum an aunt.
He was 7years old at the time. He remembers the day. Thankfully he survived.

A gentleman named Farley Mowatt wrote a wonderful book about his experiences as a young Lieutenant in the Canadian Army in Sicily. I recommend it to anyone that wants a small scale and very personal account of the campaign.

My grandfather died in the scicilian campaign, he was a British army sargeant, hes buried in a big cemetery for veterans in Sicily

Brilliant work! It's clear that a lot of thought and effort went into this. I’m hooked.

Sadly, Wikipedia mentions that during the Sicily operation, on 14 July, American troops of the 180th Infantry Regiment summarily executed 73 Axis prisoners of war in two separate incidents. After capturing 45 Italian and 3 German POWs while attacking an airfield near Santo Pietro, a regimental detachment led by Sergeant Horace T. West marched the POWs for approximately a mile before West directed that "eight or nine" be separated from the rest and taken to the regiment's intelligence officer for questioning; West proceeded to summarily execute the remaining 37 POWs. On the next day, the 37 bodies were spotted by an American military chaplain, Lieutenant-Colonel William E. King. King reported the incident to his superiors, who at first dismissed it due to the bad press which would occur if it were made public; however, after some convincing, they agreed to court-martial West. Troops from the 180th Infantry Regiment committed another massacre on 14 July, when Captain John T. Compton ordered 35 Italian POWs to be summarily executed by firing squad. West and Compton were charged by the United States Army with committing a war crime; West was convicted and sentenced to life in prison and stripped of his rank but was released back to active service in November 1944 as a private, and honorably discharged at the end of his service. Compton was charged with killing 40 prisoners in his charge but was acquitted and transferred to another regiment, where he died in November 1943 while fighting in the Italian campaign. Would Germans have gotten away with that?

George Mancel Halfyard fought in this battle. A part of the Newfoundland Regiment.

One person made a historic and significant difference. Paddy Mayne!

My grandfather on my dad's side was in the US Army Air Forces in North Africa, Sicily and Italy during this period. He would end up in southern France by the time the Germans surrendered. He then was supposed to be sent into the Pacific to fight the Japanese. He and many others had not seen their families back home since before the attack on pearl harbor in December 1941. They were eventually allowed 2 weeks with their families before going into the Pacific.. his second day home is when the Japanese announced the surrender and he didn't have to go back overseas after all. He passed away in 2002 in his mid-80's.