MCAF Map of the Italian Campaign landings and railway routes opened.
As the scale of his role grew, Ray found himself involved in the planning and preparations for the major campaigns of the Mediterranean theatre. This included the planning prior to the Allied invasion of Sicily - Operation Husky, which took place in July 1943. Operation Husky was the largest amphibious operation of World War II in terms of size of the landing zone and number of divisions to be put ashore on the first day. The US Seventh Army were to be landed in the south of the island and British Eighth Army in the east.
He told of whilst in North Africa, being given charge of a briefcase containing important information as it was known that the transit camp in North Africa they were using was likely to be subjected to attack by German paratroopers. With the briefcase handcuffed to himself and with a driver and sergeant to accompany him, he was sent out into the desert to keep the papers safe. He slept in the desert overnight, having buried the briefcase in the sand nearby for safekeeping.