Ah Fried it was almost like Normandie.......take the shortest road possible. you have to admit that going by the way of the straits and then securing the warmer southern low-lands; setting up a firm base to attack from and establish centers-airfields for the famous P-47 dive bomber units and the 15th AF heavy's. Would of made no sense to go beyond this even in the summer months to try an air assault into the Tirol. The country had to be taken slowly and also whether down the Italiens so that they might switch their loyalties.

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