Operation Husky

By: Arvin and Brenden

Video

• http://www.canadiangeographic.ca/bl

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Dates and Locations

• 1943-1945

• Campaign began July 10 1943

• Took place in Italy

• (Canadian Geographic)

Allied forces

• Had 470,000 personnel

• 14,000 vehicles

• 600 tanks

• 1,800 guns

• 5,837 killed

• 15,683 wounded

• 3,326 captured which is a total of 24,820 casualties

• (Totally History)

Germany and Italy

• 230,000 Italian personnel

• 60,000 German personnel

• 260 tanks

• 1,400 aircrafts

• German 20,000 casualties

• 131,359-147,000 killed, wounded or POW

• Mostly POW (Prisoners of War)

• (History)

Major players

• Canada

• France

• Germany losses were greater then what they

could handle

• Italy

• America helped stop Germany

• (Canada at war)

Germany

• The Germany lost 30,000 soldiers and 44,000

infantry

• A lot of weapons especially tanks

• They lost so many experienced troops and

equipment that this brought the war to a

quick end because this was there last attack

• (History)

Outcome

• This battle is significant because this

was Hitler’s last major offensive

attack in the war

• His plan was to destroy the allied

forces but, Germany took the bigger

loss

Invasion of Italy

About the Battle

• The Germans and Italian losses

mostly prisoners

• Operation husky is a code name

which is actually called Allied

invasion of Sicily

Plans and preparations

• Did not use there original plan

• There were 2760 ships near Malta

• They came from the river Clyde

The Landings

• There were high winds that affected

the planes in the air.

• 400 transport aircraft

• 137 gliders

When

• This happened 70 years ago and

25,000 Canadian soldiers went to

Italy to fight

Work Cited• "WWII: Conquest of Sicily - Canada at

War." Canada at War RSS. N.p., n.d.

Web. 21 Jan. 2015.

• "Results and Significance." Battle of

the Bulge. N.p., n.d. Web. 19 Jan.

2015.

More Work Cited

• "Invasion of Sicily." History.com. A&E

Television Networks, n.d. Web. 21 Jan.

2015.

• "Operation Husky Summary – Allied

Invasion of Sicily in Summer 1943." Totally

History Operation Husky Comments. N.p.,

n.d. Web. 21 Jan. 2015.

More Work Cited• "Operation Husky: Canada's

Forgotten Second World War History -

Canadian Geographic." Operation

Husky: Canada's Forgotten Second

World War History - Canadian

Geographic. N.p., n.d. Web. 21 Jan.

2015.