Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Rundunar Soji ta takwas ta shiga cikin yakin Italiya wanda ya fara da mamayewar Allied na tsibirin Sicily
, mai suna Operation Husky. Lokacin da Allies suka mamaye ƙasar Italiya, sassan rundunar soji ta takwas sun sauka a 'ƙafar' Italiya a cikin Operation Baytown da kuma a Taranto a cikin Operation Slapstick. Bayan da ya haɗu da gefen hagu tare da Sojojin Amurka na biyar, wanda Janar Mark W. Clark ya jagoranci, wanda ya sauka a Salerno a yammacin Italiya a kudancin Naples, Sojoji na takwas sun ci gaba da yaki a Italiya a gabashin gabashin sojojin Allied. Tare wadannan rundunonin biyu sun hada da Sojojin Allied a Italiya (daga baya aka sake tsara rukunin Sojoji na 15, a karkashin Janar Sir Harold Alexander.