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For the story of the colour illustration in the banner at the top of this page, click here. 30 maps are in this pack and feature important battlegrounds such as Iwo Jima, Midway, Guadalcanal, and Aberdeen and other large maps. This map pack was designed specifically for Allied Intent Extended v2.0. The story of Operation Ladbroke is an integral part of a larger history, and this website will also include stories from the wider invasion of Sicily and the history of airborne forces in the whole of World War 2. Battlefield 2 - Allied Intent Extended v2.0 Mappack. It was a strategy first employed by the Germans during their invasion of Holland. Later still, at Arnhem, Montgomery repeated his strategy of an airborne-held corridor. Less than a year later, during the D-Day invasion of Normandy, lessons learned in Sicily helped Allied airborne forces perform yet more outstanding feats of arms.

In the following days further airborne assaults were intended to hold open a corridor for the Eighth Army, as it advanced up the coast of Sicily seizing port after port. Meanwhile the main seaborne forces of General Montgomery’s Eighth Army raced to relieve the beleaguered glider men and capture the port of Syracuse.

The Red Devils (as their German opponents had christened them) were supported by raids on Italian heavy gun batteries by both the SAS and the Commandos. The seizing and holding of the Ponte Grande bridge, in particular, is the stuff of airborne legend. Mistakes were made, losses were terrible, but the heroism of the airborne forces shone through. The Allies succeeded in capturing the island and. It saw the first mass use of glider troops by the Allied forces. The Allied invasion of Sicily, also known as Operation Husky, was fought from 9 July to 17 August, 1943. It was the opening move of Operation Husky, the Allied invasion of Sicily in July 1943. Operation Ladbroke is one of the most remarkable stories of the war.