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...
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the successful Allied invasion of Sicily. The main invasion force landed on the west coast of Italy at Salerno on 9 September as part of Operation Avalanche...
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The Allied invasion of Italy, a phase of the Mediterranean Theater of World War II, took place on 3 September at Reggio di Calabria (Operation Baytown)...
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The Man Who Never Was (category Cultural depictions of Lord Mountbatten)
about an upcoming Allied invasion of German-occupied Greece, rather than Sicily, the more obvious target. Overcoming the reluctance of senior officers,...
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Charles Cholmondeley (intelligence officer) (category Officers of the Order of the British Empire)
from the Allied invasion of Sicily in Operation Husky. Cholmondeley was born on 27 January 1917 in O'Halloran Hill, South Australia, the son of Richard...
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following the Allied invasion of Sicily, Mussolini was arrested by order of King Victor Emmanuel III, provoking a civil war. Italy's military outside of the Italian...
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Operation Mincemeat (category Allied invasion of Sicily)
operation of the Second World War to disguise the 1943 Allied invasion of Sicily. Two members of British intelligence obtained the body of Glyndwr Michael...
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Operation Overlord (redirect from Allied invasion of France)
Operation Torch an invasion of French North Africa in November 1942, the Allied invasion of Sicily in July 1943, and Allied invasion of Italy in September...
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XXX Corps (United Kingdom) (category Corps of the British Army in World War II)
flank during the Allied invasion of Sicily in 1943. It returned briefly to the United Kingdom; it then served in the Allied Invasion of Normandy in June...
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Ewen Montagu (category Commanders of the Order of the British Empire)
away from the Allied invasion of Sicily ("Operation Husky"). Montagu was president of the United Synagogue from 1954 to 1962, and President of the Anglo-Jewish...
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