[colorado tanker]

Maybe they didn't know Italy is mountainous?

I suppose I'm looking at the thing in hindsight, but if we really wanted Italy, after securing the land across from Messina, why didn't we land at the head of the Adriatic Sea and run up the Po Valley to cut off the German units in the "boot."? An Inchon kind of approach.

[SAMWolf]

Yep. Although the attempt at Anzio didin't work out quite according to plan. I think it all had to do with the range of air cover.