摘要：As the campaign in Sicily drew to a close in August 1943, the U.S. Army's heralded 1st Infantry Divi- sion lost its commander when II Corps commander LTG Omar N. Bradley relieved MG Terry de la Mesa Allen from command of the Big Red One. Assistant division commander BG Theodore Roosevelt Jr. was out, too. Bradley's decisions, fully supported by Seventh Army commander LTG George S. Patton Jr. at the end of a highly successful campaign that brought new glory to the 1st Division, remain con- troversial 70 years after the fall of Messina. If the 1st Division had performed so valiantly in North Africa and Sicily under Allen's command, why were Allen and Roosevelt relieved. As Allen's story demonstrates, battlefield success alone is not always enough to outweigh other fac- tors once a senior commander has lost con- fidence in a subordinate officer's ability to exercise command.
