Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Da zarar an kunna, sashin ya kasance a Amurka don horo da motsa jiki. Kamar yadda aka tsara sashin, kamar sauran sassan jiragen sama, don zama ƙungiyar ƙwararru, tsarin horo ya kasance mai wahala sosai. Akwai kuma hasumiya da aka gina daga wanda sojojin da ke cikin iska za su yi tsalle don kwaikwayon saukowa ta hanyar faduwa, doguwar tafiya da tilasta yin tsalle daga jirgin sama mai jigilar kaya; tsayawa a ƙofar jirgin sama yayin tsalle-tsalle ya haifar da gazawar atomatik ga dan takarar. Sakamakon rashin nasarar da aka samu ya kasance mai girma, amma ba a taɓa samun karancin 'yan takara ba, musamman ga rukunin Amurka, saboda yawan albashin ya fi na talakawa. Yayin da aka horar da sashen, muhawara ta taso a cikin Sojojin Amurka kan ko mafi kyawun amfani da sojojin da ke cikin iska ya kasance "a cikin taro" ko a matsayin ƙananan ƙungiyoyi. A ranar 9 ga Yuli, 1943, aikin farko na jirgin sama na Allied da aka fara - mamayewar Allied na Sicily
(Operation Husky) <unk> an aiwatar da shi ta hanyar abubuwan da ke cikin Rundunar Sojan Sama ta 82 na Amurka da Rundunar Sojan Sama ta 1 ta Burtaniya. Babban Kwamandan (CG) na Rundunar Sojan Sama ta 11 na Amurka, Manjo Janar Joseph May Swing, an ba shi izinin yin aiki na ɗan lokaci a matsayin mai ba da shawara na iska ga Janar Dwight D. Eisenhower, Babban Kwamandan Allied a Bahar Rum, don mamaye Sicily, kuma ya lura da harin da aka kai, wanda ya tafi da kyau. An tura rundunar sojin sama ta 82 ta Amurka ta hanyar faduwar sama da kuma jirgin sama kuma ta yi asarar rayuka da yawa, wanda ya haifar da tunanin cewa ta kasa cimma burinta da yawa.