Your family must be so proud of him!

The Italian campaign had unique challenges that Moorehead covers well: One was that it stalled midway up the peninsula (unlike that of Normandy, which more or less allowed the Allies to keep driving straight on through to the Rhone).

Where did your father go ashore? You hear the most about Anzio, but I realized while researching this that there were many other places in Italy where even more Allies might have landed.