 Ramba uchiverenga ndima ino - United States Fifth Army yaiva imwe yemapoka makuru eU.S. Army muMediterranean munguva yeHondo Yenyika II, uye yaiva uto rokutanga reAmerica rakamboshandiswa kunze kweUnited States. Yakashanda zviri pamutemo musi wa5 Ndira 1943 paOujda, French Morocco uye yakaitwa kuti ive nemhosva yekudzivirira Algeria neMorocco. Yakapiwawo mutoro wokuronga rutivi rweAmerica rwekupinda muItaly, uye nokudaro haana kubatanidzwa Allied nechisimba kweSisiri coded Operation Husky, apo akanga pachinzvimbo basa kudzidzisa kurwa mauto akagadzirirwa yeSisiri. United States Fifth Army pakutanga yakarairwa naLieutenant General Mark Wayne Clark, uyo aizotungamira Fifth Army kweanenge makore maviri, uye aifanira kusangana nemamwe ehondo dzakaomarara dzeHondo Yenyika II, kwayakanga ichibatanidzwa paItaly Front, iyo yaive, munzira dzakawanda, kazhinji inonyanya kuyeuchidza hondo yemakomba yeWestern Front muHondo Yenyika I. Kunyorera Lieutenant General Jacob L. Devers mutevedzeri weAmerica kuField Marshal Sir Henry Maitland Wilson, mukuru weMediterranean Theater mukupera kwaKurume 1944, Clark akatsanangura kuoma kwekurwa muItari kusvika parizvino, izvo zvinogona kutaurwa nezve mushandirapamwe wese. Akati, Zvaiva zvinhu zvakadai senzvimbo, mamiriro okunze, nzvimbo dzokuzvidzivirira dzakagadzirirwa zvakanaka mumakomo, mauto omuvengi akatsunga uye akadzidziswa zvakanaka, uye nzira dzokuzvidzivirira dzakanga dzisinganyanyi kukwana patakanga tiri kurwisa, tiine mauto anenge akaenzana neaive achidzivirira. 