Comments by "" (@TheDavidlloydjones) on "Why the invasion of Italy almost failed" video.

  1. No explanation of why and how the Germans had been allowed to evacuate Sicily. With the Italian Navy silent, why were the Straits of Messina left safe for Kesselring's crossing?
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  2. British forces would not have "grown" if they had delayed the invasion of Germany. Churchill just wanted to bleed the soviets for a while longer. In England the Communists were part of the short-lived Commonwealth Party (which won every by-election during the war, but dissolved in 1945). Commonwealth opposed the government. In the United States the Communist Party had a marginal sort of public existence, but very realistically supported the Democrats. (Later, contrary to Republican propaganda, Truman fired just over 1,000 Communists from the senior and Executive Level civil service.)
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