Why didn't the Allies invade Sardinia and Corsica and land in Genoa instead to bypass the German fortifications in mainland Italy?
Why didn't the Allies invade Sardinia and Corsica and land in Genoa instead to bypass the German fortifications in...
John Morris
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Landon Young
They preferred bombing the shit out of it
Isaiah Parker
Because they could get trapped
Samuel Hill
terroni are weak while northern italians are intimidating and strong
joking aside sardinia and corisca would be a logistical annoyance, while sicily is an island which could be secured promptly and give the allies a nice landing platform. just compare the distances from tunis to sicily and tunis to genoa
Brandon Russell
The British made their plan to invade Germany through the Alps, for that controlling all of Italy was crucial.
Landing in those strategically unimportant Islands would have alarmed the Axis Forces and could have resulted in failing at Genoa or getting wiped out when attempting to get a foothold in Sicily or Naples.
The defences would have been improvised and engineer.constructed with some fortifications and a pretty strong Wehrmacht aided by the Terrain,the Waffen-SS,Italians and other reinforcements.
Going into Sardinia and Corsica would have meant bombing Italy dead until a larger invasion in 1944,like in Normandy, could have been executed.
This would have allowed the Germans to expand their total-war-mobilisation,they would have only encountered half as many bombing raids to their Homeland and no Italian front,so they could Focus entirely on the Kursk-breakthrough,which could have actually worked in that timeline.
Anyways,if the Allies managed to capture Genoa and surroundings, an advance into the Po-plains would have been costly and the campaign would end in the Winter of 1943/44, while beeing surrounded by the Alps and Apennini,the Gothic line,with high probabbility of supply issues and a motivated Mountain force preparing for counteroffensives.
The Greenhorns of our timeline would not have fought in Northern France,but would have been all killed in Urban combat in the Northern Italian Industrial regions,basically an American Stalingrad in reaching from Milan to Verona.
The Armored Forces could not Play out their strength and fail against Gun batterys and Infantry.
No, it all would have been to risky.
Juan Peterson
>to invade Germany through the Alps
Jordan Morales
After Gallipoli, did you really think Churchill ever cared about the life of his soldiers?
Levi Gomez
Maybe he just hated oversea anglos.
Landon Butler
Thank God the allies didn't land here in Sardinia, i'd be eternal salty if my grandmother was gangraped by the darkies of the french or americans black like in the south
Honestly sometimes I think that both us and corsicans are lucky to still exist btw
Also, the resistance here would have probably worked in the mountain regions, so basically hell for everyone
Jordan King
>Gothic line
WE
Christopher Perry
They attempted to land behind German defenses (Anzio, for instance) just from bases further south in mainland Italy. There really was no need to go after Sardinia or Corsica to attempt that kind of thing.
Jaxson Sullivan
That's a possibility,but he heavily relied on them.
Justin Robinson
Really are descendants of the Ostrogoths, who settled in all of Apennine Penninsula and Illyria and mixed with the Gallo-Romans,Greco-Romans,Italian Mountain People and later also the Venetians,Lombards,Langobards and Markomanni,resulting in the creation of multiple kingdoms and duchies,that still exist today in Italy, as regions.
Oliver Bell
>Really are descendants of the Ostrogoths
Modern Germans have nothing to do with Goths.
Jeremiah Davis
I've wondered about this too. Seems like holding Corsica would have allowed the Allies to credibly threaten western Italy and southern France simultaneously, stretching the German defenses.
Adrian Butler
Everyone in this thread is fucking retarded.
en.wikipedia.org
>The Western Naval Task Force was formed under the command of Vice Admiral Henry Kent Hewitt to carry the U.S. 6th Army Group, also known as the Southern Group or Dragoon Force, onto the shore. The 6th Army Group was formed in Corsica and activated on 1 August, to consolidate the French and American forces slated to invade southern France. Admiral Hewitt's naval support for the operation included the American battleships Nevada, Texas, Arkansas, the British battleship Ramillies and the French battleship Lorraine, with twenty cruisers for gunfire support and naval aircraft from nine escort carriers assembled as Task Force 88
>The Allied ground and naval forces were aided by a large aerial fleet of 3470 planes. The majority of them were stationed on Corsica and Sardinia.
>The first of 1,300 Allied bombers from Italy, Sardinia, and Corsica began aerial bombardment shortly before 0600.
tl;dr THEY FUCKING DID.
Juan Nguyen
We're wondering why they didn't do it earlier.
Austin Anderson
The islands fell almost as soon as the Italian government did, before the fall of Rome. What exactly were you expecting from them?
Nathaniel Anderson
>Hey let's land really close to the Germans
They tried that at Anzio and it was a fucking disaster
Jeremiah Miller
Sure they do, they're all miserable humorless cunts
Connor Butler
Goths were like Swedes, they loved to have their women fucked by someone else. Goths loved to see Gothic women get pounded by invading Slavs.