The Battle of Sicily

I had the Germans expected gliders you know why they prepared any potential landing grants with the use of gliders and Sicily. In neither case I don't know that they knew about the word glider necessarily but in terms of the invasion and where it would take place our anti aircraft artillery was very robust. And I think that's what spooked sometimes the air crews to release a bit early too far out at sea, dooming those those glider pilotsThose gliders were taking enemy fire from three sides, including some enemy fire from the Allied fleet that they were flying over due to some miscommunication issues. So, Sicily was a good test run, if you will, however tragic, for