An Analysis Of The Italian Invasion Of Italy

Before dawn on July 10 of 1943, the American and the British troops, along with Canadian, Free French, and other Allies, planned to invade Italy in the final push to defeat the Axis of Italy and Germany. Beyond their goal of crushing Italian Axis forces, the Allies wanted to draw German troops away from the main Allied advance through Nazi-occupied northern Europe to Berlin in Germany. The campaign ended when Army Group C surrendered unconditionally to the Allies on May 2 of 1945, one week before the formal German Instrument of Surrender. The following is an analysis of the Italian Campaign, as it was a series of Allied beach landings and land battles from Sicily and southern Italy up to the Italian toward Nazi