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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).
Map showing the landing areas during the invasion of Sicily, July 1943. As there were insufficient transport aircraft for all three brigades to conduct their operations simultaneously, it was decided that the first operation would be Ladbroke, whose objective was the capture of the Ponte Grande Bridge. [8]
The Allied invasion of Sicily, Operation Husky, began on 9 July 1943 with both amphibious and airborne landings at the Gulf of Gela. The land forces involved were the U.S. Seventh Army , under Lieutenant General George S. Patton , the 1st Canadian Infantry Division and the 1st Canadian Armoured Brigade under the command of Major-General Guy ...
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.The operation was undertaken by General Sir Harold Alexander's 15th Army Group (comprising General Mark W. Clark's American Fifth Army and General Bernard Montgomery's British Eighth Army) and followed the successful Allied invasion ...
Husky (1943 — Allied invasion of Sicily. Project Habakkuk (1943) — project to construct an aircraft carrier from pykrete . Pointblank (1943) — umbrella for bombing offensive by USAAF and RAF in preparation for Overlord .
Axis powers expansion over Europe before Invasion of Russia.. Operation Weiß (German invasion of Poland.Carried out 1 September 1939) Operation Himmler (false flag operation to provide a casus belli for the invasion of Poland, including the Gleiwitz incident)
The Allied Military Government of the Free Territory of Trieste was a follow-on from the military government of occupied Italy. The Free Territory of Trieste was created by the 16th UN Security Council Resolution adopted at the 91st meeting by 10 votes to none, with 1 abstention (Australia), 10 January 1947, and established by the signature of the Treaty of Peace with Italy, 10 February 1947 ...
Husky (1943) — Allied invasion of Sicily. Chestnut (1943) — failed SAS operation to disrupt enemy communications in northern Sicily; Ladbroke (1943) — British glider landing near Syracuse, Sicily; Mincemeat (1943) — disinformation operation prior to the invasion of Sicily. Brimstone (1943) — fictional invasion of Sardinia, part of ...