Editing Bernard Montgomery (section)

====Sicily====
[[File:Gen. Bernard Law Montgomery and Lt. Gen. George S. Patton, Jr.,.jpg|thumb|left|Montgomery visits Patton in Palermo, Sicily, July 1943.]]

The next major Allied attack was the [[Allied invasion of Sicily]] (Operation Husky). Montgomery considered the initial plans for the Allied invasion, which had been agreed in principle by [[General (United States)|General]] [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]], the [[Supreme Allied Commander]] [[Allied Forces Headquarters]], and General Alexander, the [[15th Army Group]] commander, to be unworkable because of the dispersion of effort. He managed to have the plans recast to concentrate the Allied forces, having [[Lieutenant general (United States)|Lieutenant General]] [[George S. Patton|George Patton]]'s [[Seventh United States Army|US Seventh Army]] land in the Gulf of Gela (on the Eighth Army's left flank, which landed around [[Syracuse, Sicily|Syracuse]] in the south-east of Sicily) rather than near [[Palermo]] in the west and north of Sicily.<ref>{{harvnb|Mead|2007|p=306}}</ref> Inter-Allied tensions grew as the American commanders, Patton and [[Omar Bradley]] (then commanding [[II Corps (United States)|US II Corps]] under Patton), took umbrage at what they saw as Montgomery's attitudes and boastfulness.<ref name=odnb/> However, while they were considered three of the greatest soldiers of their time, due to their competitiveness they were renowned for "squabbling like three schoolgirls" thanks to their "bitchiness", "whining to their superiors" and "showing off".<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Roberts|first=Andrew|title=Generals at War|url=https://www.weeklystandard.com/andrew-roberts/generals-at-war|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181025070930/https://www.weeklystandard.com/andrew-roberts/generals-at-war|url-status=dead|archive-date=25 October 2018|date=30 May 2005|magazine=Weekly Standard|access-date=25 October 2018}}</ref>