Operation Avalanche, Salerno - Sept. 9th, 1943 | Call of Duty Pt. 31 | (United Fronts Mod)

September 9th, 1943 - After the Fall of Sicily and the collapse of Benito Mussolini's regime in August, Allied Forces have completed final preparations for the invasion of mainland Italy. Their initial target - the port city of Salerno. Codenamed Operation Avalanche, the attack is intended to secure a foothold on the "toe" of the peninsula. To maintain the element of surprise, there will be no naval or air bombardment before the landings to soften the Axis defenses. Participating in this risky assault is Sgt. Bradocks' squad, now attached to the US 5th Army and assigned the task of knocking out enemy bunkers and machine gun nests. Hardened from their time in North Africa, this will be their first action on the European continent. They are up against veteran German soldiers of the 10th Army, who've disarmed their former Italian allies and occupied the country in order to defend the Reich's southern borders. It will be a tough fight, but if they are successful, they will be one step closer to the liberation of Rome, and of Europe. Hi! It's been a while! A really long while. I've been lazy, no other way to say it. I've been pretty busy too, but definitely not too busy to record and upload new videos if I felt like it - I just haven't really felt like it. It also didn't help that the PC I've been doing this series on finally died after nearly 10 long years of service. RIP Alienware, my first gaming desktop. You shall be dearly missed. I finally got around to installing the game and mod + my recording and editing software on my laptop, which is acting as a temporary stopgap till I can get myself a new PC. Hopefully now that I'm back to work here, I can stick with it and make some progress. Only time will tell. Either way, welcome back! As always, what you're seeing is the United Fronts mod, which combines CoD 1, UO and a ton of custom modded missions together into one massive campaign, with updates to weapons, sounds, textures, numerous quality of life tweaks and changes, etc. Check out their ModDB page for a more comprehensive description, links included below. Beyond editing out deaths and bits where I got lost, no real changes were made. Didn't add any music, subtitles or anything - what you see is what you'd get with the mod. The only thing I did was change the date on the loading screen journal from September 17 (the last day of the battle, which I can only assume was a mistake) to September 8th, the actual night before the Salerno beach landings. Not sure why I went through the effort of changing it, it's far from the only incorrect date in both the base game and mod, but it was bothering me and an easy fix in photoshop, so I thought why not. As well, this is also technically two missions, Salerno 1 and Salerno 2, that I've combined into one long video. Salerno 2 starts exactly where 1 ends, with zero transition or even a loading screen journal, so I didn't see the point in splitting it into two videos. I guess take this as a 40+ minute special to celebrate my triumphant return to YouTube. Anyway, enjoy! United Fronts Mod: https://www.moddb.com/mods/call-of-du...