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| | Italy |
 | | Allied invasion of Italy This article covers the invasion of mainland Italian Campaign. | | | Adelaide of Italy Saint Adelaide of Italy was born in marriage was to Lothar, King of Italy, and was part of a political... | | | Matera, Italy Matera is a town and a province in the region of Italy. |
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| | Palermo, Italy - definition of Palermo, Italy in Encyclopedia |
| | Palermo survived almost the entire fascist period unscathed, but during the Allied invasion of Sicily in July 1943 the harbour and the surrounding quarters were bombed heavily by the allied forces and were all but completely destroyed. | | | Palermo (Palermo in Italian) (Palermu or Palemmu in Sicilian) (population 680,000) is the principal city and administrative seat of the autonomous region of Sicily, Italy. | | | Sicily's unification (1734) with the Bourbon-ruled kingdom of Naples as the kingdom of the Two Sicilies inflicted a devastating blow on the elite of Palermo, as the city was reduced to just another provincial city, the royal court residing in Naples. |
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http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Palermo,_Italy
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| | Italy |
| | Allied invasion of Italy This article covers the invasion of mainland Italian Campaign. | | | Adelaide of Italy Saint Adelaide of Italy was born in marriage was to Lothar, King of Italy, and was part of a political... | | | Matera, Italy Matera is a town and a province in the region of Italy. |
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| | ANZIO 1944 |
| | The subsequent lack of progress, however, and a chronic shortage of troops and shipping due to the ongoing buildup for the cross-Channel invasion of France (OVERLORD), soon made the initial landing date impractical. | | | Anzio was selected because it was considered the best site within striking distance of Rome but still within range of Allied aircraft operating from Naples. | | | Reinforcements were rushed to Anzio, including 1,800 men of the American-Canadian 1st Special Service Force, elements of the British 56th Division, and additional antiaircraft and artillery units, raising the total number of Allied soldiers in the beachhead to 100,000. |
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| | Allies of World War II - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The German-Soviet agreement was brought to an end by the German invasion of the USSR on June 22, 1941. | | | This promise was extended to Greece and Romania, after Italy's conquest of Albania on April 7, 1939. | | | Chiang Kai-shek felt Allied victory was assured with the entrance of the United States into the war and he declared war on Germany and the other Axis nations. |
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| | Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany: Comparisons and Contrasts |
| | Fascist mass organisations were largely unsuccessful in co-opting the working classes: there were even mass strikes in spring 1943, before the Allied invasion of Italy or the German occupation. | | | The ten essays in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, arranged in five Italy/Germany pairs, explore topics in the social, economic and political history of the two regimes. | | | Adrian Lyttelton opens with a piece on bourgeois society in Italy, looking at the class backgrounds of the Fascist squadristi and their supporters and at the regime's use of violence. |
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| | Italy |
| | Military reversals in North Africa and the Allied invasion of Sicily and southern Italy in 1943 contributed to the overthrow of Benito Mussolini's dictatorship. | | | Although allied with Germany, Fascist Italy did not willingly cooperate in the Nazi plan to kill the Jews of Europe. | | | Almost 2,000 Jews were deported from Rhodes, an Aegean Sea island that had been part of Italy before the war. |
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| | Channel 4 - History - World War II: A chronology |
| | Well-written article by Dr Robert M Browning Jr about Allied invasion of Italy at Salerno, primarily from point of view of US Coast Guard contingent. | | | The Invasion of Italy, September 9, 1943–May 8, 1945 | | | Second Washington Conference: Roosevelt and Churchill agree on invasions of Sicily, Italy and northern Europe. |
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| | The May Queen: Queen Marie-José of Italy (b.1907) |
| | After the Allied invasion of Italy, old King Victor-Emmanuel III abdicated in his son's favor in a last effort to safe the Italian monarchy. | | | The last Queen of Italy prefers to ignore the past and avoid nostalgic reminiscences, instead she much prefers to look at the future and the possibilities life may provide. | | | She vainly tried to obtain the freedom of Belgian prisoners of war. |
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| | The World Almanac E-Newsletter: May 2005 |
| | In Italy, after a series of military defeats and a successful Allied invasion in the south, the king stripped the country's dictator, Benito Mussolini, of power that summer and in September concluded an armistice with the Allies. | | | Italy and Japan had been victors in World War I, but were unsatisfied with the amount of territory granted to them. | | | Italy wanted additional territory, and Japan wished to gain control of China. |
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| | Italy |
| | Battle of Italy List of battles The Battle of Italy occurred in many wars, including: World War II invasion of Italy. | | | Matera, Italy Matera is a town and a province in the region of Italy. | | | Adelaide of Italy Saint Adelaide of Italy was born in marriage was to Lothar, King of Italy, and was part of a political... |
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| | - Battles in Italy Review - Page 1 - The Gamers Temple |
| | Battles in Italy uses the Decisive Battles of World War II engine to provide war gamers with a chance to recreate the Allied invasion of Italy. | | | The invasions of Anzio, Salerno, and Sicily are all included, so you can try to recreate the Allied successes or change history by pushing the invasion back into the sea as the Axis. | | | Battles in Italy provides veteran war gamers with a detailed and challenging look at the invasion of Italy, but it’s not for the casual gamer. |
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| | Allied invasion of Italy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Popular support in Italy for the war was declining, and he believed that an invasion would remove Italy from the war, thus removing the influence of the Regia Marina in the Mediterranean Sea and opening it to Allied traffic. | | | Joint Allied Forces Headquarters AFHQ were operationally responsible for all allied land forces in the Mediterranean theatre and it was they who planned and commanded the invasion of Sicily and the Italian mainland. | | | It was felt that a quick invasion of Italy might hasten an Italian surrender and produce quick military victories over the German troops that would now be trapped fighting in a hostile country. |
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| | WWII Campaigns: Sicily |
| | More important, it served as both a base for the invasion of Italy and as a training ground for many of the officers and enlisted men who eleven months later landed on the beaches of Normandy. | | | Although U.S. military leaders had not initially planned to use Sicily as a springboard for an invasion of Italy, the impact of the operation on the tottering Fascist regime begged exploitation, and the Allies quickly followed up their victory by invading Italy in September 1943. | | | The failure of Allied air and naval forces to interdict the Strait of Messina was due in large part to the fact that neither Eisenhower nor his principal air, land, and sea commanders had formulated a coordinated plan to prevent the withdrawal of Axis forces from the island. |
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| | MSN Encarta - D-Day |
| | The British shifted the Allied focus from France to an attack on German forces in North Africa and an eventual invasion of Italy, Germany’s ally, from the Mediterranean Sea. | | | D-Day Invasion or Invasion of Normandy, the 1944 Allied assault on Nazi-occupied northern Europe that assembled the largest force in the history of amphibious warfare and represented a major turning point in World War II (1939-1945). | | | The Allied forces consisted of 20 U.S. divisions, 14 British divisions, 3 Canadian divisions, a French division, and a Polish division. |
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| | Allied invasion of Sicily - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The invasion of Sicily involved primarily the following nations: The British Commonwealth and United States as the Allied landing force and Italy and Germany as the Axis forces defending the island. | | | It could also act as a precursor to the invasion of Italy, although this was not agreed by the Allies at the time of the invasion, the Americans in particular resisting commitment to any operation which might conceivably delay the invasion of France. | | | The Allied command was forced to reconsider their use of Airborne forces after the many misdrops and the deadly friendly fire incident. |
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| | The Invasion Of Italy - Italy Depot |
| | Avalanche was the Allied codename for the invasion of Salerno Italy, September 1943. | | | The invasion of Italy was one of the most important theatres for the Canadian army during the second world war. | | | The Invasion of Italy, September 9, 1943- May 8, 1945. |
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| | SparkNotes: World War II (1939–1945): North Africa and the Invasion of Italy |
| | Although Italy officially surrendered to the Allies on September 8, 1943, the Allied invasion of Italy proceeded as planned, as there were still a large number of German forces stationed in the country. | | | Prior to Mussolini’s ouster, U.S. and British forces had planned an invasion of the Italian mainland, and the sudden turn of events took the Allied leaders by surprise. | | | The Allies did not begin their offensive into Tunisia until November 25, 1942, however, and the delay of several weeks gave Germany and Italy time to airlift more troops and equipment to the region. |
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| | Naples-Foggia |
| | The Allies had bases in southern Italy from which to launch strategic air attacks on the Balkans and Germany, the Mediterranean was secure, and German divisions were tied down in Italy opposing the Allied 15th Army Group and holding those areas in northern Italy, France, and the Balkans previously garrisoned by their former Italian allies. | | | One was to plan for an invasion of the Italian mainland, the other for an invasion of Sardinia. | | | Allied resolve to attack the Italian mainland was strengthened by the 25 July 1943 announcement that King Victor Emmanuel III had removed Benito Mussolini from power and appointed Marshal Pietro Badoglio to replace him. |
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| | Their Past Your Future : The Allied Chain of Command |
| | He was chosen to direct the Allied invasion of North Africa and under his command Sicily and Italy were invaded in 1943. | | | His experience of commanding invasion fleets made him a natural choice as Allied Naval Commander-in-Chief, responsible for planning and commanding Operation Neptune, the movement of the Allied invasion force across the Channel and the offshore bombardment of German defences on D-Day. | | | He held senior commands during the Allied landings in North Africa in 1942 and the invasion of Sicily in 1943. |
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| | Chapter XX Political Principle Versus Military Pragmatism in the Issue of Venezia Giulia |
| | Kirk said that his instructions from the State Department indicated that the United States Government wished Allied Military Government to be extended to all disputed areas which in 1939 were part of Italy, including Zara and the Italian islands in the Adriatic. | | | Kirk observed the arguments now being put forward by Marshal Tito were precisely similar to those advanced by the Japanese prior to their invasion of Manchuria and by Mussolini before the invasion of Abyssinia. | | | Tito objected to this while agreeing fully to and pledging assistance in the matter of Allied Military Command and control of the port of Trieste and L of C required by Allied Forces occupying Austria or Hungary. |
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| | Operation Anvil/Dragoon |
| | Operation Torch, the Anglo-American landings against French North Africa in November 1942, was followed by Husky, the assault against Sicily in early July 1943, and the invasion of southern Italy in September. | | | On August 15, 1944, Allied forces in the European Theater during World War II invaded southern France, following the June 6 Invasion of Normandy, France, commonly referred to as "D-Day." That invasion, Operation Anvil, later renamed "Dragoon," occurred at the Gulf of Leon east of Marseilles. | | | Operation Anvil fell both geographically and chronologically between two much larger Allied efforts in northern France and Italy, so both its conduct and its contributions have largely been ignored. |
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| | SparkNotes: World War II (1939–1945): North Africa and the Invasion of Italy |
| | Although Italy officially surrendered to the Allies on September 8, 1943, the Allied invasion of Italy proceeded as planned, as there were still a large number of German forces stationed in the country. | | | Prior to Mussolini’s ouster, U.S. and British forces had planned an invasion of the Italian mainland, and the sudden turn of events took the Allied leaders by surprise. | | | All of Italy’s actions were undertaken at the whim of its dictator, Mussolini, whose decisions became so erratic and potentially costly that his own underlings eventually decided to overthrow him. |
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| | Allied Forces |
| | Avalanche: World War II Allied Assault on Italy Avalanche was the Allied codename for the invasion of Salerno Italy, September 1943. | | | The Allied Special Forces Association Dedicated to creating a memorial commemorating members of the Allied Special Forces killed during World War II and in the conflicts since. | | | Allied Special Forces Association The Allied Special Forces Association is dedicated to establishing the Allied Special Forces Memorial in Hereford UK. |
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| | CBC News Indepth: Ortona |
| | Canada played a major role in the Allied invasion of mainland Italy during the Second World War, mostly as part of the British Eighth Army and sometimes fighting independently. | | | At this point, the Allied advance ran into a heavily fortified and defended German line running across Italy from Ortona in the east to Cassino in the west, blocking all roads to Rome. | | | The next Allied objective was the strategic industrial heartland of northern Italy and the German's last fortified defencs there, the Gothic Line. |
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| | WWII Campaigns: Sicily |
| | Although U.S. military leaders had not initially planned to use Sicily as a springboard for an invasion of Italy, the impact of the operation on the tottering Fascist regime begged exploitation, and the Allies quickly followed up their victory by invading Italy in September 1943. | | | The failure of Allied air and naval forces to interdict the Strait of Messina was due in large part to the fact that neither Eisenhower nor his principal air, land, and sea commanders had formulated a coordinated plan to prevent the withdrawal of Axis forces from the island. | | | The two Allied leaders also were anxious to exploit the momentum of their impending victory in North Africa, and the mass of men and materiel that would be available in the Mediterranean at the conclusion of the North African campaign made additional operations in that theater attractive. |
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| | Harold L Rinard |
| | The next Ranger action was the allied invasion of Italy at Salerno. | | | To help resolve the stalemate in Italy, the invasion of Anzio, Italy, just south of Rome on the western coast, was planned. | | | While the war in Italy ground to a muddy stalemate in the hills and valleys of Italy, the Rangers were used as ordinary frontline troops and did not require the Ranger's unique skills. |
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| | What Did You Do in the War, Grandma?: Timeline |
| | Allied B-29 bombers can reach Tokyo from Saipan, thus the capture of the island will be a turning point in the Pacific war. | | | Italy declares war on Britain and France, and U.S. President Roosevelt announces a shift from neutrality to "non-belligerency," meaning more active support for the Allies against the Axis. | | | As Allied lines fall back, a "bulge" is created in the center of the line, giving the battle its familiar name (see MAP). |
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| | Italian Campaign: A 50 Year Perspective |
| | Graham and Bidwell have written convincingly that the Italian campaign was not only inevitable from the moment of the first Allied landings in North Africa, but once begun, ‘demonstrated the self-generating momentum of military operations…The invasion of mainland Italy was launched in the hope that a brief and limited effort could bring about large gains. | | | The Italian campaign was less to advance an Allied agenda in Italy than to support the actions of Overlord and the Eastern Front by drawing off valuable German formations to Italy. | | | The invasion of Salerno in September 1943 was not only a continuation of the war in the Mediterranean, but earned the dubious distinction of being the first of a series of ill-fated military operations in Italy. |
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| | WWII Glossary/Index: Torch |
| | Roosevelt and Churchill decided to delay the Allied invasion of France and in its place planned the Allied invasion of Italy. | | | The code name for the Allied invasion of North Africa that began November 8, 1942. | | | The Allies invaded the area as part of the invasion of North Africa in 1942. |
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