Turner, Pte. Frederick Arthur
Tweedie, Lt. Col. F.D. “Dodd,”
Tweedsmuir, Lord or Major. See Buchan, Maj. JohnBaron Tweedsmuir
Tyrrhenian Sea
Ulich, Col. Max
Urquhart, Brig. Robert
U-375
Valguarnera
van Straubenzee, Maj. C.B.
Vaugeois, Lt. Guy
Vian, Rear Adm. Sir Philip L.
Vittoria
Vizzini
Vokes, Brig. Chris
von Bonin, Oberst Bogislaw
von Neurath, Konstantin
von Senger und Etterlin, General der Panzertrupe Fridolin
Waldron, Lt. Slim
Wallace, Capt. Ian
Wallace, Lt. Jack Francis
Walsh, Lt. Col. Geoff
Ware, Maj. Cameron
Warlimont, General der Artillerie Walter
Warrener, Pte. Ronald Macgregor
Watson, Capt. D.J.
Watson, Capt. W. “Bucko,”
Watson, Lt. M.H. “Mel,”
Waugh, Capt. N.R.
Welsh, Maj. G.A. “Tiger,”
Western Task Force. See Force 343
Whimbrel, HMS
Whyte, Maj. Ken
Whyte, Maj. Ken
Wilkes, Padre “Rusty,”
Willoughby, Cpl. Charles
Wilson, Lt. Col. G.G.H.
Wilson, Lt. Marriott
Worrell, Gnr. Henry
Worton, Sgt. Bill
Wright, Tpr. Norman
Wrong, Hume
Yearwood, Lt. Manley
Zapulla River
INDEX OF FORMATIONS, UNITS, AND CORPS
CANADIAN
Air Force
WINGS
331 Wing
SQUADRONS
417 (City of Windsor)
420 (City of London)
424 (City of Hamilton)
425 (Alouette)
Army
First Canadian Army
DIVISIONS
1st Canadian Infantry
2nd Canadian Infantry
5th Canadian Armoured
BRIGADES
1st Canadian Infantry (1 CIB)
2nd Canadian Infantry (2 CIB)
3rd Canadian Infantry (3 CIB)
1st Canadian Army Tank
ARMOURED UNITS
4th Reconnaissance Regiment (4th Princess Louise Dragoon Guards)
11th Canadian Armoured Regiment (Ontario Tanks)
12th Canadian Armoured Regiment (Three Rivers Tanks)
14th Canadian Armoured Regiment (Calgary Tanks)
INFANTRY BATTALIONS/REGIMENTS
Carleton and York 48th Highlanders of Canada
Hastings and Prince Edward (Hasty Ps) , assault and defend Assoro
Loyal Edmonton and Leonforte
Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry (PPCLI)
Royal 22e (Van Doos)
Royal Canadian Regiment (RCR)
Royal Rifles of Canada
Seaforth Highlanders of Canada
South Saskatchewan Regiment
West Nova Scotia
Winnipeg Grenadiers
CORPS OF ROYAL CANADIAN ENGINEERS
1st Field Company
3rd Field Company
4th Field Company
ROYAL CANADIAN ARTILLERY
90th Anti-Tank Battery
1st Field Regiment (Royal Canadian Horse Artillery)
2nd Field Regiment
3rd Field Regiment
2nd Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment
ROYAL CANADIAN ARMY MEDICAL CORPS
No. 4 Field Ambulance
No. 5 Field Ambulance
No. 9 Field Ambulance
No. 5 General Hospital
SUPPORT
Saskatoon Light Infantry (SLI )
OTHER UNITS
Royal Canadian Army Service Corps
Royal Canadian Corps of Signals
Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps
NAVY
55th Landing Craft, Assault Flotilla
61st Landing Craft, Assault Flotilla
80th Landing Craft, Mechanized Flottila
81st Landing Craft, Mechanized Flotilla
BRITISH AND COMMONWEALTH
Air Force
Desert Air Force
Northwest African Coast Air Force
Northwest African Strategic Air Force
Army
15th Army Group
Eighth Army
CORPS
XIII Corps
XXX Corps
DIVISIONS
1st Airborne
1st Infantry
3rd Infantry
4th Infantry
5th Infantry
50th Infantry
51st Highland
56th Infantry
78th Infantry
ARMOURED BRIGADES/REGIMENTS
4th Armoured Brigade
23rd Armoured Brigade
INFANTRY BRIGADES
1st Airlanding
11th Infantry
13th Infantry
17th Infantry
231st (Malta) Infantry
1st Parachute
REGIMENTS/ BATTALIONS
Black Watch, 7th Battalion
Devonshire Regiment
Hampshire Regiment, 1st Battalion
London Irish Rifles, 2nd Battalion
ARTILLERY REGIMENTS
7th Medium
11th Royal Horse
64th Medium
105th Anti-Tank Regiment
165th Field Regiment
Royal Devon Yeomanry
ROYAL NAVY AND MARINES
Royal Navy. See also General Index, ships by names
ROYAL MARINE COMMANDOS
special Service Brigade
No. 3 Commando
No. 40 Commando
No. 41 Commando
UNITED STATES
Army
Seventh Army
CORPS
Provisional Corps
II Corps
DIVISIONS
1st U.S.
2nd U.S. Armoured
3rd U.S.
45th U.S. (Thunderbird)
82nd U.S. Airborne
ARMOURED BRIGADES/REGIMENTS
70th Light Tank Brigade
INFANTRY BRIGADES/REGIMENTS
18th Infantry Regiment
157th Combat Team
180th Combat Team
Navy
See General Index, ships by names
GERMAN
Air
HERMANN GÖRING FORMATIONS
4th Hermann Göring Flak Regiment
Hermann Göring Panzer Division
Hermann Göring Panzer Artillery Regiment
Hermann Göring Panzer Engineer Battalion
Army
Sixth Army
Tenth Army
CORPS
Afrika Korps
XIV Panzer Korps
DIVISIONS
1st Parachute
15th Panzer Grenadier
16th Panzer
29th Panzer Grenadier
164th Light Africa
KAMPFGRUPPEN (BATTLE GROUP)
Schmalz
Ulich
REGIMENTS
29th Motorized Artillery
1st Panzer Grenadier
15th Panzer Grenadier
104th Panzer Grenadier
382nd Panzer Grenadier
1st Parachute Artillery
1st Parachute
3rd Parachute
4th Parachute
BATTALIONS
1st Parachute Engineer Battalion
1st Parachute Machinegun Battalion
3rd Parachute, 1st Battalion
3rd Parachute, 2nd Battalion
15th Panzer, 1st Battalion
29th Panzer, IIIrd (Heavy) Battalion
29th Panzer, Engineer Battalion
382nd Panzer Grenadi
er Regiment
504th Heavy Panzer Battalion
Panzer Grenadier Battalion Reggio
Navy
See General Index, ships by names
ITALIAN
Army
Sixth Army
Naval Fortress Area Augusta-Siracusa
Naval Fortress Area Messina
Naval Fortress Area Trapani
CORPS
XII Corps
XVI Corps
DIVISIONS
4th (Livorno) Assault and Landing
26th (Assietta)
28th (Aosta) Infantry
54th (Napoli) Infantry
206th Coastal Defence
BRIGADES/BATTALIONS/REGIMENTS
33rd Regiment
OTHER
Mobile Group E
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
THIS IS THE seventh volume in Mark Zuehlke’s Canadian Battle Series, which chronicles the major campaigns and battles Canada’s army fought during World War II. These best-selling books cemented his reputation as the nation’s leading writer of popular military history. Noted for their intense combat scenes and depth of research, the series prompted Quill & Quire to state that “Zuehlke’s skill in writing battle narrative remains unsurpassed.” In 2006, the Canadian Battle book Holding Juno: Canada’s Heroic Defence of Canada’s D-Day Beaches, June 7-12 won the City of Victoria Butler Book Prize. His Italian Trilogy of Ortona: Canada’s Epic World War II Battle, The Liri Valley: Canada’s World War II Breakthrough to Rome, and The Gothic Line: Canada’s Month of Hell in World War II Italy is considered the definitive narrative of the Canadian army’s role in the Italian Campaign. Operation Husky can be seen as a prequel to that series.
Zuehlke’s five other historical works include For Honour’s Sake: The War of 1812 and the Brokering of an Uneasy Peace, which won the 2007 Canadian Authors Association Lela Common Award for Canadian History.
Also a novelist, he is the author of the popular Elias McCann crime series. The first in the series, Hands Like Clouds, won the Crime Writers of Canada Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel in 2000, and the later Sweep Lotus was a finalist for the 2004 Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel. Zuehlke lives in Victoria, British Columbia, and is currently at work on his next Canadian Battle book, which will carry the story forward from where his best-selling 2007 release, Terrible Victory: First Canadian Army and the Scheldt Estuary Campaign: September 13-November 6, 1944, left off.
He can be found on the Web at www.zuehlke.ca.
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b There is some discrepancy regarding Canadian casualties. The Canadian official history gives a total of five other ranks and one officer reported missing and presumed drowned from City of Venice and St. Essylt, while the usually reliable Uboat.net Web site cites ten Canadians as lost on City of Venice and one on St. Essylt. Both sources agree on a loss of fifty-two Canadians aboard Devis. In another discrepancy, all Canadian sources—particularly the eye-witness account by Cameron Ware and a report in 1st Canadian Infantry Division’s War Diary of signals received giving the approximate times of each sinking—maintain there was a thirty-minute to one-hour delay between the torpedoing of City of Venice and St. Essylt. Uboat.net states that at 2140 hours the U-375 fired four torpedoes in a single spread at the convoy and reported sinking one freighter, but later was credited with sinking both vessels. Was there a second U-boat stalking the convoy that evening, which struck after U-375’s attack? No records exist to confirm or deny this. Because the Uboat. net casualty figures included losses of merchant crewmen, I have used those in the text.
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Operation Husky : the Canadian invasion of Sicily,
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