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Originally Posted by JCFalkenbergIII
In hindsight could you fault Eisenhower's not trusting the Italians? They had just betrayed their German Ally and surrendered to the Allies.
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But let's compare the situation of Germany and Allies by that period. Italy was surrounded, defeated, there was no other way. The changing of sides wasn't some Badoglio's crazyness.
Eisenhower could, at least, have sent some P-38s to back-up the italians on the ground.