Chiefs of Staff contain the thoughts and beliefs of numerous people who were planning the invasion of Sicily. These people who were involved with the planning were part of the British and American Joint chiefs of Staff, which merged to form the Combined Chiefs of Staff. These records were created thoughtfully and deliberately for documenting the planning that was necessary for Operation Husky. Furthermore, these documents were created with the purpose of communicating to an audience because there was a wide dispersal of individual headquarters. The main headquarters for Operation Husky was located at Algiers, which later moved near Carthage; while the British and American each had their own headquarters at different sites. The American headquarters was located at Oran but later moved to Bizerta and the British headquarters was located at Cairo, which later relocated to Malta. Due to the dispersal of headquarters, caused largely by the fact that the war in Tunisia did not end until May, it was necessary for the Allies to send messages to communicate between each other. Within the Records of the Joint Chiefs of Staff many of the documents purpose was to communicate between the different headquarters.
             For Operation Husky the Allies were commanded by General Eisenhower and consisted of two armies, the US 7th commanded by Patton and the British 8th commanded by Montgomery, together forming the 15th Army Group under General Alexander. The size of the invading force was 160 000, carried in 3000 ships making Operation Husky the largest amphibious assault ever attempted. For an assault of this size there needed to be extensive planning and synchronization, which is portrayed in the Records of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The American and British Joint Chiefs of Staff were both working together to plan the invasion of Sicily. The primary sources illustrate how the Allies came to agree upon the invasion of Sicily and reveals the difficulties...