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by Mark Zuehlke


  Turner, Pte. Frederick Arthur

  Tweedie, Lt. Col. F.D. “Dodd,”

  Tweedsmuir, Lord or Major. See Buchan, Maj. JohnBaron Tweedsmuir

  Tyrrhenian Sea

  Ulich, Col. Max

  Urquhart, Brig. Robert

  U-375

  Valguarnera

  van Straubenzee, Maj. C.B.

  Vaugeois, Lt. Guy

  Vian, Rear Adm. Sir Philip L.

  Vittoria

  Vizzini

  Vokes, Brig. Chris

  von Bonin, Oberst Bogislaw

  von Neurath, Konstantin

  von Senger und Etterlin, General der Panzertrupe Fridolin

  Waldron, Lt. Slim

  Wallace, Capt. Ian

  Wallace, Lt. Jack Francis

  Walsh, Lt. Col. Geoff

  Ware, Maj. Cameron

  Warlimont, General der Artillerie Walter

  Warrener, Pte. Ronald Macgregor

  Watson, Capt. D.J.

  Watson, Capt. W. “Bucko,”

  Watson, Lt. M.H. “Mel,”

  Waugh, Capt. N.R.

  Welsh, Maj. G.A. “Tiger,”

  Western Task Force. See Force 343

  Whimbrel, HMS

  Whyte, Maj. Ken

  Whyte, Maj. Ken

  Wilkes, Padre “Rusty,”

  Willoughby, Cpl. Charles

  Wilson, Lt. Col. G.G.H.

  Wilson, Lt. Marriott

  Worrell, Gnr. Henry

  Worton, Sgt. Bill

  Wright, Tpr. Norman

  Wrong, Hume

  Yearwood, Lt. Manley

  Zapulla River

  INDEX OF FORMATIONS, UNITS, AND CORPS

  CANADIAN

  Air Force

  WINGS

  331 Wing

  SQUADRONS

  417 (City of Windsor)

  420 (City of London)

  424 (City of Hamilton)

  425 (Alouette)

  Army

  First Canadian Army

  DIVISIONS

  1st Canadian Infantry

  2nd Canadian Infantry

  5th Canadian Armoured

  BRIGADES

  1st Canadian Infantry (1 CIB)

  2nd Canadian Infantry (2 CIB)

  3rd Canadian Infantry (3 CIB)

  1st Canadian Army Tank

  ARMOURED UNITS

  4th Reconnaissance Regiment (4th Princess Louise Dragoon Guards)

  11th Canadian Armoured Regiment (Ontario Tanks)

  12th Canadian Armoured Regiment (Three Rivers Tanks)

  14th Canadian Armoured Regiment (Calgary Tanks)

  INFANTRY BATTALIONS/REGIMENTS

  Carleton and York 48th Highlanders of Canada

  Hastings and Prince Edward (Hasty Ps) , assault and defend Assoro

  Loyal Edmonton and Leonforte

  Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry (PPCLI)

  Royal 22e (Van Doos)

  Royal Canadian Regiment (RCR)

  Royal Rifles of Canada

  Seaforth Highlanders of Canada

  South Saskatchewan Regiment

  West Nova Scotia

  Winnipeg Grenadiers

  CORPS OF ROYAL CANADIAN ENGINEERS

  1st Field Company

  3rd Field Company

  4th Field Company

  ROYAL CANADIAN ARTILLERY

  90th Anti-Tank Battery

  1st Field Regiment (Royal Canadian Horse Artillery)

  2nd Field Regiment

  3rd Field Regiment

  2nd Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment

  ROYAL CANADIAN ARMY MEDICAL CORPS

  No. 4 Field Ambulance

  No. 5 Field Ambulance

  No. 9 Field Ambulance

  No. 5 General Hospital

  SUPPORT

  Saskatoon Light Infantry (SLI )

  OTHER UNITS

  Royal Canadian Army Service Corps

  Royal Canadian Corps of Signals

  Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps

  NAVY

  55th Landing Craft, Assault Flotilla

  61st Landing Craft, Assault Flotilla

  80th Landing Craft, Mechanized Flottila

  81st Landing Craft, Mechanized Flotilla

  BRITISH AND COMMONWEALTH

  Air Force

  Desert Air Force

  Northwest African Coast Air Force

  Northwest African Strategic Air Force

  Army

  15th Army Group

  Eighth Army

  CORPS

  XIII Corps

  XXX Corps

  DIVISIONS

  1st Airborne

  1st Infantry

  3rd Infantry

  4th Infantry

  5th Infantry

  50th Infantry

  51st Highland

  56th Infantry

  78th Infantry

  ARMOURED BRIGADES/REGIMENTS

  4th Armoured Brigade

  23rd Armoured Brigade

  INFANTRY BRIGADES

  1st Airlanding

  11th Infantry

  13th Infantry

  17th Infantry

  231st (Malta) Infantry

  1st Parachute

  REGIMENTS/ BATTALIONS

  Black Watch, 7th Battalion

  Devonshire Regiment

  Dorsetshire Regiment, 1st Battalion

  Hampshire Regiment, 1st Battalion

  London Irish Rifles, 2nd Battalion

  ARTILLERY REGIMENTS

  7th Medium

  11th Royal Horse

  64th Medium

  105th Anti-Tank Regiment

  165th Field Regiment

  Royal Devon Yeomanry

  ROYAL NAVY AND MARINES

  Royal Navy. See also General Index, ships by names

  ROYAL MARINE COMMANDOS

  special Service Brigade

  No. 3 Commando

  No. 40 Commando

  No. 41 Commando

  UNITED STATES

  Army

  Seventh Army

  CORPS

  Provisional Corps

  II Corps

  DIVISIONS

  1st U.S.

  2nd U.S. Armoured

  3rd U.S.

  45th U.S. (Thunderbird)

  82nd U.S. Airborne

  ARMOURED BRIGADES/REGIMENTS

  70th Light Tank Brigade

  INFANTRY BRIGADES/REGIMENTS

  18th Infantry Regiment

  157th Combat Team

  180th Combat Team

  Navy

  See General Index, ships by names

  GERMAN

  Air

  HERMANN GÖRING FORMATIONS

  4th Hermann Göring Flak Regiment

  Hermann Göring Panzer Division

  Hermann Göring Panzer Artillery Regiment

  Hermann Göring Panzer Engineer Battalion

  Army

  Sixth Army

  Tenth Army

  CORPS

  Afrika Korps

  XIV Panzer Korps

  DIVISIONS

  1st Parachute

  15th Panzer Grenadier

  16th Panzer

  29th Panzer Grenadier

  164th Light Africa

  KAMPFGRUPPEN (BATTLE GROUP)

  Schmalz

  Ulich

  REGIMENTS

  29th Motorized Artillery

  1st Panzer Grenadier

  15th Panzer Grenadier

  104th Panzer Grenadier

  382nd Panzer Grenadier

  1st Parachute Artillery

  1st Parachute

  3rd Parachute

  4th Parachute

  BATTALIONS

  1st Parachute Engineer Battalion

  1st Parachute Machinegun Battalion

  3rd Parachute, 1st Battalion

  3rd Parachute, 2nd Battalion

  15th Panzer, 1st Battalion

  29th Panzer, IIIrd (Heavy) Battalion

  29th Panzer, Engineer Battalion

  382nd Panzer Grenadi
er Regiment

  504th Heavy Panzer Battalion

  Panzer Grenadier Battalion Reggio

  Navy

  See General Index, ships by names

  ITALIAN

  Army

  Sixth Army

  Naval Fortress Area Augusta-Siracusa

  Naval Fortress Area Messina

  Naval Fortress Area Trapani

  CORPS

  XII Corps

  XVI Corps

  DIVISIONS

  4th (Livorno) Assault and Landing

  26th (Assietta)

  28th (Aosta) Infantry

  54th (Napoli) Infantry

  206th Coastal Defence

  BRIGADES/BATTALIONS/REGIMENTS

  33rd Regiment

  OTHER

  Mobile Group E

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  THIS IS THE seventh volume in Mark Zuehlke’s Canadian Battle Series, which chronicles the major campaigns and battles Canada’s army fought during World War II. These best-selling books cemented his reputation as the nation’s leading writer of popular military history. Noted for their intense combat scenes and depth of research, the series prompted Quill & Quire to state that “Zuehlke’s skill in writing battle narrative remains unsurpassed.” In 2006, the Canadian Battle book Holding Juno: Canada’s Heroic Defence of Canada’s D-Day Beaches, June 7-12 won the City of Victoria Butler Book Prize. His Italian Trilogy of Ortona: Canada’s Epic World War II Battle, The Liri Valley: Canada’s World War II Breakthrough to Rome, and The Gothic Line: Canada’s Month of Hell in World War II Italy is considered the definitive narrative of the Canadian army’s role in the Italian Campaign. Operation Husky can be seen as a prequel to that series.

  Zuehlke’s five other historical works include For Honour’s Sake: The War of 1812 and the Brokering of an Uneasy Peace, which won the 2007 Canadian Authors Association Lela Common Award for Canadian History.

  Also a novelist, he is the author of the popular Elias McCann crime series. The first in the series, Hands Like Clouds, won the Crime Writers of Canada Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel in 2000, and the later Sweep Lotus was a finalist for the 2004 Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel. Zuehlke lives in Victoria, British Columbia, and is currently at work on his next Canadian Battle book, which will carry the story forward from where his best-selling 2007 release, Terrible Victory: First Canadian Army and the Scheldt Estuary Campaign: September 13-November 6, 1944, left off.

  He can be found on the Web at www.zuehlke.ca.

  a Available from Douglas & McIntyre

  b There is some discrepancy regarding Canadian casualties. The Canadian official history gives a total of five other ranks and one officer reported missing and presumed drowned from City of Venice and St. Essylt, while the usually reliable Uboat.net Web site cites ten Canadians as lost on City of Venice and one on St. Essylt. Both sources agree on a loss of fifty-two Canadians aboard Devis. In another discrepancy, all Canadian sources—particularly the eye-witness account by Cameron Ware and a report in 1st Canadian Infantry Division’s War Diary of signals received giving the approximate times of each sinking—maintain there was a thirty-minute to one-hour delay between the torpedoing of City of Venice and St. Essylt. Uboat.net states that at 2140 hours the U-375 fired four torpedoes in a single spread at the convoy and reported sinking one freighter, but later was credited with sinking both vessels. Was there a second U-boat stalking the convoy that evening, which struck after U-375’s attack? No records exist to confirm or deny this. Because the Uboat. net casualty figures included losses of merchant crewmen, I have used those in the text.

  Copyright © 2008 by Mark Zuehlke

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  Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

  Zuehlke, Mark

  Operation Husky : the Canadian invasion of Sicily,

  July 10-August 7, 1943 / Mark Zuehlke.

  Includes bibliographical references and index.

  eISBN : 978-1-926-68577-9

  1. Operation Husky, 1943.

  2. Canada. Canadian Army. Canadian Infantry Division, 1st—History.

  3. Canada. Canadian Army. Canadian Tank Brigade, 1st—History.

  4. World War, 1939-1945-Campaigns—Italy—Sicily.

  5. Canada. Canadian Army—History—World War, 1939-1945. I. Title.

  D763.S5Z.54′2158 C2008-905370-2

  We gratefully acknowledge the financial support of the Canada

  Council for the Arts, the British Columbia Arts Council, the Province

  of British Columbia through the Book Publishing Tax Credit,

  and the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund for our

  publishing activities.

 

 

 


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