Operation Details

Mustang

'Mustang' was an Allied unrealised contingency plan, as an extension of 'Buttress' and in combination with 'Goblet', for a rapid overland advance to Naples in the event of an Italian collapse after the Sicilian campaign (summer 1943).

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The plan envisaged the landing of light forces in the 'toe' of Italy for a rapid advance through Calabria for the capture of Naples, through whose port six divisions and 43 squadrons of aircraft could then be landed for a swift progress to Rome.

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