The long, 20-month slog of the Italian campaign gave the U.S. Army the greatest opportunity to study their tools, how they were used and how to improve their performance.
The sophisticated and successful assault on fascist Italy during the summer of 1943, known as Operation Husky, came as a complete surprise to the Axis powers, proving to the world the U.S. had become a full-fledged fighting power.
What began as an unfeasible plan to open a second front in frozen Norway, ultimately created one of the finest special forces in the proud history of two armies American and Canadian.