Part 14: Turn 17 - 23rd October 1943

The Italians hold – this is now a good thing.



Bradley continues to hold.



With only two attacks, it's obvious that German High command is still shocked by this bold move. *and quite possibly busy with thousands of Italian prisoners.






Bad weather in Europe limits out ability to do anything.



Over the landing zones, we continue to hit them hard.






I use the Italian troops to soften up the Germans as the Free French forces march north.



On Corsica, poor ports slow the rate I can unload troops.





Thankfully I decided landing paratroopers in mainland Italy was suicide, so I retasked them to hitting here!



More troops are off the ships, and now we begin to push inland.



They have a lot of Panzers up here, and they are tough to shift.



More troops land, including the 7th Corps, 7th US army and 8th British Army.



Here are the forces soon to be ashore, spot your soon to be dead Grandad! (I'm sure mine was attached to one of the 8th army units, but as a Bren gun mechanic. Grandma worked at a Station Y in the UK.)



Things are going pretty well so far!