Watching SAS Rogue Heroes, I am pondering that North Africa and the Italian Campaign have tended to be ignored.
My father had terrible trouble liberating the Sicilians because, with his blond hair and blue eyes, they kept mistaking him for one of the people from whom he was doing so. Still, the tomato paste prepared him for Saint Helena in a later life.
He went to Normandy as well, but why is there such reticence about what he and his comrades (in his case the Black Watch; he was an Edinburgh man, but had been born across the water in his mother's native Fife) had been doing before? Is it because they had also been in, shall we say, the Middle East?
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