Operation Husky

Abstract

The Connecticut OSS contingent eagerly accepted the challenge to create an infiltration strategy designed to gather intelligence about Sicily-based German and Italian forces that would be advantageous in conducting “Operation Husky,” the code name for history’s largest amphibious incursion prior to the Normandy D. Day invasion. Theoretically, the role of the OSS was not to engage in direct combat but rather to penetrate behind enemy lines to accumulate information regarding strongly held and fortified enemy military positions, and to enlist native Sicilians to work with the OSS in gathering information. As Frank Tarallo so suitably described it:

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