Prof. Greg Jackson
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On September 8th, 1943, the world learns that fascist Italy has signed an armistice with the Allies.
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Allied Supreme Commander in the Mediterranean, Dwight D. Eisenhower, personally announces the news that evening via Radio Algiers.
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And truly, Italy had no choice.
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The Allied invasion of Italy's Great Mediterranean island of Sicily, codenamed Operation Husky, was a complete success.
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Such a success that British and Canadian troops have already made the mere two to three mile skip from the Italian island to the quote-unquote toe of the Italian mainland, an action known as Operation Baytown.
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The writing's on the wall.
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Fascist Italy is done for.
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Even its tepid king, Victor Emmanuel III, can see that.
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Ah, but that's not how the Nazis see it.
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From their perspective, Italy isn't folding with a losing hand.
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It's throwing in the towel as a traitor to their pact of steel.
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Hence, German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel writes, Italy's treachery is official.
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And hence, Germany has no intention of simply walking away from the Italian boot without a fight, particularly when its vast armies are already spread across so much of its fascism-founding former allies' territory.
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Thus, even if Italy won't fight the Allies any longer, the nation will nonetheless become a major battleground as the Wehrmacht stands against the advancing Allies.
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That gets us back to where we left off at the end of episode 201.
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It also gives us the background and context needed to continue following the Allies' imminent invasion of mainland Italy via two more operations.
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The British executed and all but unopposed seizure of the southern Italian port of Taranto and an American-led, heavily opposed, more northern amphibious landing, Operation Avalanche.
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Given its American flavor and far more significant action, we'll follow the latter.
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Thrown together in haste as the Allies secured Sicily in August, Operation Avalanche will land troops significantly farther north up Italy's western coast than where the Brits and Canucks have already planted the flag.
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