Allied Invasion of Sicily | Animated History

Use my code ARMCHAIR to get $25 off using my link here! ► http://www.vessi.com/armchairhistorian And a big thanks to Vessi for sponsoring this video and supporting my channel! After their successes in North Africa, the Allied powers debated long and hard over the next stage of the war. With Stalin calling for relief in the East and Churchill grumbling in the West, the decision was made to pursue the fleeing Axis forces across the Mediterranean and invade the Island of Sicily. But with D-Day still more than a year distant, many fundamental questions had yet to be answered about the nature of amphibious warfare. One wrong move, and thousands of lives could be lost in the treacherous waters around Sicily. Join us as we examine this first great foray across the Mediterranean, the precursor to so many other successful amphibious operations that would be crucial to the liberation of Europe. Sign up for Armchair History TV today! https://armchairhistory.tv/ Merchandise available at https://store.armchairhistory.tv/ Discord: https://discord.gg/zY5jzKp Twitter: https://twitter.com/ArmchairHist Sources: Atkinson, Rick, The Day of Battle, New York: Henry Holt and Co, 2007, Ebook “Invasion of Sicily.” History.com. A&E Television Networks, November 18, 2009. https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/invasion-of-sicily. Luconi, S. (2007). “Italian Americans and the Invasion of Sicily in World War II.” Italian Americana, 25(1), 5-22. www.jstor.org/stable/41330565 Parker, Geoffrey, and Williamson A Murray. “The World at War, 1939–45.” Essay. In The Cambridge History of Warfare. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2008. www.jstor.org/stable/resrep13982.9. St. Clair, M. (2007). The Twelfth US Air Force: Tactical and Operational Innovations in the Mediterranean Theater of Operations, 1943–1944 (pp. 17-32, Rep.). Air University Press. www.jstor.org/stable/resrep13982.9 Royde-Smith, J. G., & Hughes, T. A. (2019). “The Allies invasion of Italy and the Italian volte-face, 1943.” https://www.britannica.com/event/World-War-II/The-Allies-invasion-of-Italy-and-the-Italian-volte-face-1943 Smyth, Denis. Deathly Deception: The Real Story of Operation Mincemeat. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. Zeuhlke, Mark, Operation Husky: The Canadian Invasion of Sicily, July 10 - August 7 1943, Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 2009, Ebook. Music: Armchair Historian Theme by Zach Heyde To All the Glory by Howard Harper-Barnes Awaited Ambush by Bonnie Grace Historic Italy by Cercles Nouvelles Thunder from the West by Zach Heyde Rio de Jerneiro by Sarah, the Illstrumentalist