British Ops Slapstick and Baytown

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British Ops Slapstick and Baytown

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Two operations executed by the British in Southern Italy. Anyone know where there's any information about them?
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All I know from this is from Wikipedia. My understanding is that it was mainly an engineering operation, to be honest, whereby a small German kampfgruppe set about demolishing all the roads and the British then followed up behind fixing them. I don't think there was a great deal of fighting, except for right by Reggia where Folgore (EDIT: Nembo) fought a local delaying action.
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RE: British Ops Slapstick and Baytown

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A discussion of 'Baytown' is in this work, starting at page 180.

https://www.canada.ca/content/dam/theme ... 2-2-en.pdf

'Slapstick' is briefly discussed on pp 94-95 in:

https://history.army.mil/html/books/006 ... _6-3-1.pdf

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Yeah not much going on with either.
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