Allied invasion of Sicily
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Oct 21, 2026
Andy BrownVOICE_ACTOR
Yeah, I know what to tell her.
George StevensVOICE_ACTOR
Tell her you fought in the Battle of Sicily.
Andy BrownVOICE_ACTOR
Yeah, well, where is Sicily?
George StevensVOICE_ACTOR
I knowed it was coming.
Mark EllisonHOST
Welcome back! Question 1, name the Wabi-Watu, British deception using a corpse with fake invasion plans, answer Operation Mincemeat.
Mark EllisonHOST
Staged in 1943, the ruse involved a body given the identity Major William Martin, Royal Marines, whose documents helped mask the real target, Sicily, Operation Husky.
Mark EllisonHOST
It's one of the most famous deception operations of the war.
Mark EllisonHOST
Question 2.
speaker_1NARRATOR
And here is the thing that has no rational framing, no strategic language adequate to contain it.
speaker_1NARRATOR
Glyndwr Michael, who died without a name that anyone wrote down, who was stored in a refrigerator because no one wanted him back, who was buried in foreign soil under a false identity, he is the reason the Allied invasion of Sicily succeeded.
speaker_1NARRATOR
He is the reason the Italian government fell.
speaker_1NARRATOR
He is the reason tens of thousands of soldiers who would have died on fortified Sicilian beaches did not die there.
Michael WeyersHOST
27 reach North Africa.
Michael WeyersHOST
Operation Husky, the invasion of Sicily, follows in July 1943.
Michael WeyersHOST
The airborne phase opens with Operation Ladbroke.
Michael WeyersHOST
is the first major glider operation of the war and the first glider attack by night it goes in on the night of july 9th to 10th 1943 the objective is the ponte grande a twin span bridge on the southern approach to syracuse it crosses the river anapo and the mayabica canal the first air landing brigade of the first airborne division must capture it and hold it for the advance of the Eighth Army.
Matthew CollinsHOST
In New York, Peter stayed in the Barbizon Plaza Hotel and enjoyed fabulous American hospitality.
Matthew CollinsHOST
He then sailed his new landing craft across the Atlantic and trained for Operation Husky, the Allied invasion of Sicily, on the North African coast.
Matthew CollinsHOST
Part one takes us up to Operation Husky.
Matthew CollinsHOST
Part two is about Peter's time in Malta and India, and his post-war life.
Matthew CollinsHOST
Cricket features a lot in the interview, as does baby boomer music.
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Rick SheppersonGUEST
They were heading for the Mediterranean and-
Matthew CollinsHOST
Italy
Rick SheppersonGUEST
... unbeknown to them at that time, Operation Husky, which was July '43-
Matthew CollinsHOST
This episode is part two of an interview with retired teacher, Rick Shepperson, about his father, Peter, a Royal Navy volunteer reserve commander of an infantry landing craft.
Matthew CollinsHOST
In part one, we heard how Peter went to New York to collect his new landing craft from the shipyard in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, and how he sailed it across the Atlantic to take part in Operation Husky, the Allied invasion of Sicily.
Matthew CollinsHOST
In this episode, Rick tells us about his dad's time in Malta and India and about his post-war life.
Matthew CollinsHOST
We also hear about Rick's mum, Daisy Ellen, who ran a successful restaurant just outside Cambridge, and whose customers included the academic polymath, Jacob Bronowski, who checked Rick's maths homework.
Matthew CollinsHOST
Yeah, that's very interesting.
Matthew CollinsHOST
So that's Italy.
Matthew CollinsHOST
That's Operation Husky, Operation Mincemeat, the duplicity, the successful tricking of the Germans.
Matthew CollinsHOST
Then your dad went to India, I think, didn't he?
Tom GulleyHOST
Here's one thing that is in keeping with his persona, though.
Tom GulleyHOST
There were two high-profile incidents of Patton striking subordinates during the Sicily Campaign, and it attracted national controversy following the end of the Sicily Campaign.
Tom GulleyHOST
On the 3rd of August, 1943, Patton slapped and verbally abused Private Charles H.
Tom GulleyHOST
Cool at an evacuation ho- hospital in Nicosia after he had been found to suffer from battle fatigue.
ChrisHOST
I think it might be Sicily.
AdamHOST
'Cause that's where they hopped up for Operation Husky.
ChrisHOST
Yeah, and then Sardinia's the little one that's closer up to the, the r- root of the shaft of Italy, I think.
AdamHOST
[laughs]
Daven HiskeyHOST
This is not to say that the Allies weren't above employing meaningful codenames of their own amusement.
Daven HiskeyHOST
For example, in 1943, British Intelligence launched Operation Mincemeat, an elaborate deception meant to divert German troops away from Operation Husky, the planned invasion of Sicily.
Daven HiskeyHOST
The operation involved dressing up a dead body as a fictitious military officer, packing its briefcase and pockets with fake documents, and dumping it off the coast of neutral Spain.
Daven HiskeyHOST
It was hoped that the documents, which indicated that the Allies would land in Greece, not Sicily, would eventually find their way into German hands.
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