Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A watan Yuli 1943 O'Daniel ya sauka a Sicily
(Operation Husky) tare da Rukunin Sojoji na 3. A ranar 24 ga Yuli, 1943, makonni biyu bayan saukowar farko, ya koma Algiers kuma an haɗa shi da Rukunin Sojoji na 36, wani rukunin Tsaro na Kasa, wanda ke tattara mutane daga Texas, a karkashin jagorancin Manjo Janar Fred L. Walker, don saukowar Salerno (Operation Avalanche) a watan Satumba. Ko da yake ba a buƙatar yin haka ba, ya zaɓi ya sauka tare da sojojin a Salerno. Ya zama jami'in da ke kula da ayyukan amphibious ga rundunar soja ta biyar a ranar 1 ga Oktoba, 1943 kuma a watan da ya gabata an sake sanya shi a matsayin mataimakin kwamandan sashen (ADC) na 3rd Infantry Division, wanda Manjo Janar Lucian Truscott ya umurta. Rukunin ya haye Layin Volturno kuma ya ci gaba da kashin baya na Italiya har sai da tsananin tsaron tsaron Jamus na Winter (wanda aka fi sani da Gustav Line). Rukunin, bayan da ya jagoranci jagorancin Sojoji na Biyar kuma ya ga yawancin gwagwarmaya da kuma mummunan rauni, ya janye don hutawa a watan Nuwamba.