Truscott’s VI Corps was an elite unit in the campaign in southern France. That campaign gets far too little credit.
But I digress again.
I was never sold on a Balkans campaign. The terrain was bad, and the logistics worse. There were no ports that would have supported an army, and no rail nets from any port that could have projected power inland. All of the logistic routes ran favorable to the German-Soviet axis, not a southern one.
And what would it have netted us? Yugoslavia? Not really; it was a basket case and still is. The Soviets would still have gotten Romania, Poland and Hungary, in all liklihood.
I agree concerning VI Corps. IMHO the 3rd I.D. was one of the best outfits we fielded in WWII. Wasn’t Audie Murphy in that Division? The rest of the Corps was well tested in the difficult fighting from the Volturno Line to Rome.