0709_02s: Sicily Invasion - "A Dog's Breakfast"_Alt - PzC 08 Sicily '43

Operation HUSKY, Sicily, late in the evening of July 9th 1943: According to historian Carlo D'Este, Montgomery called the original plans for the invasion of Sicily with the US in the west "a dog's breakfast". There were a number of plans, all of which were bedeviled by contradictory needs, Air Force requirements, naval issues, and squabbling over the role the US Army would play. Furthermore, the campaign in Tunisia wasn't over when planning for HUSKY began, and this distracted the ground commanders who were to mount the new operation. This scenario covers one of the plans the Allies considered but rejected. It features the historical Axis setup and Allied invasion date, but with very different landing zones and initial Allied forces. The Allied invasion plan used here comes from "Historical Maps of World War II", by Swift and Sharpe, and is a plan from the March - April period that has an (unspecified) British division used at the Gela (DIME) Sector. The British are responsible for the entire southeast portion of the island, and the US Western Invasion operations begin on D+2 at Sciacca and D+5 near Palermo. [Size large]