Operation Husky

Examples of Operation Husky in the following topics:

• Sicily and Italy

  • The Allied invasion of Sicily, codenamed Operation Husky, was a major campaign, in which the Allies took Sicily from the Axis.
  • Strategically, Husky achieved the goals set out for it by Allied planners: the Allies drove Axis air, land, and naval forces from the island; the Mediterranean's sea lanes were opened; and Italian dictator Benito Mussolini was toppled from power.
  • The plan for Operation Husky called for the amphibious assault of the island by two armies, one landing on the south eastern coast and one on the central southern coast.
  • Fifth Army, expecting little resistance, landed against heavy German resistance at Salerno in Operation Avalanche.
  • In addition, British forces landed at Taranto in Operation Slapstick, which was almost unopposed.

• D-Day and After

  • The Normandy landings (codenamed Operation Neptune) were the landing operations on Tuesday, June 6, 1944 (known as D-Day), of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II.
  • Operation Overlord was the name assigned to the establishment of a large-scale lodgement on the Continent.
  • The Operation Neptune was its first phase and aimed to establish a secure foothold. 
  • Elaborate deceptions, codenamed Operation Bodyguard, were undertaken in the months leading up to the invasion to prevent the Germans from learning the timing and location of the invasion.
  • The deceptions undertaken in Operation Fortitude were successful, leaving the Germans obligated to defend a huge stretch of coastline.

• MacArthur's Leapfrogging

  • Operation Cartwheel (1943–1944) was a major military strategy in the Pacific theater of World War II that aimed at militarily neutralizing the major Japanese base at Rabaul and was directed by the Supreme Allied Commander in the South West Pacific Area (SWPA)—General Douglas MacArthur.
  • Operation Cartwheel (1943–1944) was a major military strategy for the Allies in the Pacific theater of World War II.
  • King, the Chief of Naval Operations, proposed a plan with similar elements but under Navy command.
  • The protracted battle for Guadalcanal—followed by the unopposed seizure of the Russell Islands (Operation Cleanslate) on February 21, 1943—resulted in Japanese attempts to reinforce the area by sea.
  • Elkton III then became Operation Cartwheel.

• The North Africa Campaign

  • The Italians halted to bring up supplies, and Operation Compass, a British five-day raid in December 1940, led to the destruction of the Italian 10th Army.
  • The allied force there held out and were relieved during Operation Crusader.
  • Operation Torch started on November 8, 1942, and finished on November 11.
  • During Operation Torch, American, Vichy French and German navy vessels fought the Naval Battle of Casablanca, ending in a decisive American victory.
  • Identify the effectiveness of the Western Desert Campaign, Operation Torch, and the Tunisia Campaign.

• "Americanizing" the Vietnam War

  • Operation Rolling Thunder was the code name given to a sustained strategic bombing campaign targeted against the North by aircraft of the U.S.
  • For U.S. troops participating in these operations (Operation Masher/White Wing, Operation Attleboro, Operation Cedar Falls, Operation Junction City and dozens of others) the war boiled down to hard marching through some of the most difficult (and unfamiliar) terrain on the planet and weather conditions that were alternately hot and dry or cold and wet.
  • The US launched Operation Rolling Thunder, a strategic bombing campaign of North Vietnam in 1965.

• American Arrival in Europe

  • The United States entered the war in the west with Operation Torch in North Africa on 8 November 1942 although in mid-1942, the US Army Air Forces (USAAF) arrived in the UK and carried out a few raids across the English Channel.
  • Following the Normandy invasion in June 1944, the equivalent of seven US and French divisions were pulled out of Italy to Participate in Operation Dragoon: the allied landings in southern France.
  • In January 1943, at the Casablanca Conference, it was agreed Royal Air Force (RAF) Bomber Command operations against Germany would be reinforced by the USAAF in a Combined Operations Offensive plan called Operation Pointblank. 
  • It commenced on June 6, 1944 with the Normandy landings (Operation Neptune, commonly known as D-Day).
  • In the months leading up to the invasion, the Allies conducted a substantial military deception, Operation Bodyguard, using both electronic and visual misinformation.

• Clinton and Foreign Policy

  • Operation Uphold Democracy (19 September 1994 – 31 March 1995) was an intervention designed to remove the military regime installed by the 1991 coup; the operation was effectively authorized by the UN Security Council's Resolution 940 on July 31st, 1994.
  • Operation Uphold Democracy officially ended on March 31, 1995, when it was replaced by the UN Mission in Haiti (UNMIH).
  • From March 1995 until March 1996, 2,400 U.S. personnel from the original Operation Uphold Democracy remained as a support group under a new operation called Operation New Horizons.
  • American soldiers secure Port-au-Prince Airport on the first day of Operation Uphold Democracy.

• The Tehran Meeting

  • Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin agreed on Operation Overlord and general war policy.
  • Operation Overlord was scheduled to begin in May 1944, in conjunction with the Soviet attack on Germany's eastern border.
  • The "Big Three" spent days wrangling about when Operation Overlord should take place, who should command it, and where operations should begin.
  • German intelligence was aware of this high profile meeting of the Allied wartime leaders, and tried to set up an assassination plot against them, called Operation Long Jump.
  • Operation Overlord would be launched during May 1944, in conjunction with an operation against southern France.

• Slowing Momentum

  • In addition, the Axis forces were slowed by the bombings in Germany, the D-Day landings, and Operation Bagration.
  • After the successful Operation Bagration (June 22– August 19, 1944), the Soviet Army was in Poland; and in East Prussia, West Prussia, and Silesia the German populaces fled en masse, fearing Communist persecution, atrocity, and death.
  • Assess how the Axis forces were slowed by the Battle of Stalingrad, setbacks in North Africa, the bombings in Germany, the D-Day landings, and Operation Bagration.

• George H.W. Bush Abroad

  • "Operation Just Cause" was a large-scale American military operation and the first in more than 40 years that was not related to the Cold War.
  • Wary of not having sufficient domestic support for combat, Bush first deployed troops to the area to build up forces in the region and defend Saudi Arabia via Operation Desert Shield.
  • On January 14, after Congress authorized the use of military force against Iraq, the U.S. orchestrated an effective air campaign, followed by Operation Desert Storm, a one-hundred-hour land war involving over 500,000 U.S. troops and another 200,000 from 27 other countries, which expelled Iraqi forces from Kuwait by the end of February.
  • Bush sits at his desk in the Oval Office Study and talks on the telephone regarding Operation Just Cause in Panama, as General Brent Scowcroft and Governor John Sununu stand nearby.