Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Daga baya Rukunin na 51 ya huta don maye gurbin maye gurbin asara mai yawa, a cikin ma'aikata da kayan aiki, sun sha wahala a Arewacin Afirka kuma sun fara horo a yaƙin amphibious. A watan Yuli, rukunin ya shiga cikin mamayewar Allied na Sicily, mai suna Operation Husky
, yana fama da raunin raunin da ya faru a cikin gajeren yakin, wanda ya kasance kwanaki 38. Zuwa karshen yakin a farkon watan Agusta, an janye sashen daga fada kuma an ajiye shi don mamayewar Italiya. Kodayake rundunar ta 51 a matsayin cikakke ba ta shiga cikin mamayewa ba, wasu daga cikin bindigogi na rundunar sun taimaka wajen tallafawa Operation Baytown, rundunar Sojoji ta takwas ta tsallaka mashigin Messina a Sicily zuwa "ƙafar" Italiya a Reggio Calabria.