Operation Husky - Mark Zuehlke

Mark Zuehlke

Category: History

Narrator: Paul Christy

Tags: History, Military

On July 10, 1943, twenty thousand Canadian soldiers joined two great Allied armies on the beaches of southern Sicily for Operation Husky the first western Allied thrust to win a toehold inside HItlers Fortress Europe., Guarding the renowned Eighth Armys left flank, 1st Canadian Infantry division and 1st Canadian Army Tank Brigade struck out fro the sand into the islands rugged interior. In searing heat, these untried tropps clashed in ever-intensifying battle to wrest towering mountains and ancient hill towns away from the elite veterans of Germanys Hermann Goring and 1st Parachute divisions., When Eighth Armys main drive up Sicilys estern coast stalled, General Montgomery ordered the Canadians to save the day by turning the German left flank. The fighting reached a fever pitch as the Canadians struggle dto break thourhg a series of German defensive lines. Celebreated military historian Mark Zuehlke vividly recreates this little-known campaign, which became the Canadian Armys first tr