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The Allied invasion of Sicily, also known as the Battle of Sicily and Operation Husky, was a major campaign of World War II in which the Allied forces invaded the island of Sicily in July 1943 and took it from the Axis powers (Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany).
4 paź 2024 · Allied invasion of Sicily, (July 9–August 17, 1943), during World War II, the invasion of the Italian island of Sicily by Allied forces. The conquest of Sicily took a little more than a month and it led directly to the fall of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini and the surrender of the Italian.
18 lis 2009 · The invasion of Sicily, code-named Operation Husky, began before dawn on July 10, 1943, with combined air and sea landings involving 150,000 troops, 3,000 ships and 4,000 aircraft, all...
The Allied invasion of Italy was the Allied amphibious landing on mainland Italy that took place from 3 September 1943, during the Italian campaign of World War II.
26 maj 2024 · Before launching the main invasion of the Italian mainland, the Allies first targeted the island of Sicily. Operation Husky, as the Sicilian campaign was codenamed, began on July 9, 1943, with British, American, and Canadian forces landing on the southern and eastern coasts of the island.
18 lis 2009 · On July 10, 1943, Operation Husky, the code name for the invasion of Sicily, began with airborne and amphibious landings on the island’s southern shores. Jarred by the Allied invasion, the...
17 lut 2011 · Just before dawn on 10 July 1943, the British 8th Army and US 7th Army landed at Castellazo, on the south eastern tip of Sicily. It was the first European landfall by British troops since...
