Beginning with a strategic introduction to the Mediterranean Sea in early 1943, Allied forces have repulsed German and Italian armies out of North Africa and are preparing to invade Italy. On 9 July 1943, Operation Husky commences as a massive American, British and Canadian airborne and amphibious armada invades southern Sicily in July 1943. The Canadian 1^st Division and 1^st Armoured Brigade were there; sandwiched between the US Seventh Army of General George Patton in the west and the British Eighth Army to the East. Fighting through extreme heat and rugged terrain, Sicily would be the first real test to Canada’s citizen army. Begin chapter…