EVENT INFORMATION

10
Juli
1943

Allied forces land in Sicily

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📅 10 Juli 1943 📍 Italië

British, American, and Canadian forces began Operation Husky, invading Sicily. The campaign weakened Mussolini’s government and opened the route to mainland Italy. Sicilians experienced bombing, displacement, and occupation by competing armies; the island’s civilian history often disappears behind military accounts of the campaign.

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Personen in deze gebeurtenis

Harold Alexander

George S. Patton

Bernard Montgomery

Sicilian civilians

Organisaties in dit Evenement

Allied forces

Italian armed forces

German forces