Operation Baytown was the preliminary step in the plan in which Eighth Army , under General Bernard Montgomery would depart from the port of Messina on Sicily , to cross the Straits of Messina and land near the tip of Calabria ( the `` toe '' of Italy ) , on 3 September 1943 .
Operation Baytown was the plan in which Eighth Army would land near the tip of Calabria on 3 September 1943 .