WW2 Strategy discussion time peeps. Were the allies right to invade Sicily and Italy in ‘43? Would the men and material employed in that campaign have been better used in bringing forward the date of
D-Day in northern France? The costly battles at Anzio and Monte Cassino were all products of this southern line of attack, but in the long run do people think that the attack on Italy helped the USSR immediately and the Allies attack on D-Day later on, or was it a squandering of resources that could have been used later to greater effect?

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