By the end of 1942, Axis Forces in (forth Africa were being slowly squeezed back into Tunisia by the combined armies of the United States and Great Britain. In January 1943, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill met with the Allied Combined Chiefs of Staff in the Moroccan port city of Casablanca to plan their next move.
American strategists favored concentrating on a cross-Channel offensive and viewed any other course of action as a distraction from the main goal. Churchill on the other hand, felt that a campaign against Italy, 'the soft underbelly of Europe' as he called it, might help knock Italy out of the war and divert some German forces from the Russian Front. As the Allies were in no position to launch a major offensive in France in 1943 and in order to maintain the initiative, it was decided to invade Sicily as soon as the Axis Forces in North Africa were defeated. American General Dwight D. Eisenhower was named Supreme Commander and a target date was set in early July 1943.
Panzers in Italy 1943-1945 (Concord 7023)
Автор: Tom Cockle
Publisher: (Издатель:) Concord Publications
Серия: Armor At War
Год издания: 2003
Язык: english
Страниц: 74 Pages
ISBN: 9623616317
Формат: PDF
Размер: 33.6 mb
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