Episode 590-The American Landings on Sicily

The History of WWII Podcast

Ray Harris Jr

Education, Society & Culture, History

4.5 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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The Americans come ashore at three locations. Suffering relatively few deaths from Axis hands, the weather and waves were a different story. Either way, elements of Gen. Patton’s 7th Army are on Sicily. Producer Credit-Kath Hach. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:09.0	Last time, despite high winds and rough seas, the British airborne troops,
1:13.7	and then regular forces, landed along the southeastern corner of Sicily. And now it was the
1:19.5	American's turn along the southern coast. But those same weather conditions would treat the GIs
1:25.3	much more harshly. Had the Axis planned to fight on the beaches
1:29.3	proper, the haphazard landings of the Americans could have resulted in many allied deaths,
1:35.3	as it was, the American landings, hampered by the weather, and unknown geographic details,
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