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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.
18 Νοε 2009 · The Italian Campaign, from July 10, 1943, to May 2, 1945, was a series of Allied beach landings and land battles from Sicily and southern Italy up the Italian mainland toward Nazi...
Italian Campaign, (July 9, 1943–May 2, 1945), during World War II, the Allied invasion and conquest of Italy. With the success of operations in North Africa (June 1940–May 13, 1943) and Sicily (July 9–August 17, 1943), the next logical step for the Allies in the Mediterranean was a move against.
The new government signed an armistice with the Allies on 8 September 1943. However, German forces soon invaded northern and central Italy, committing several atrocities against Italian civilians and army units who opposed the German occupation and started the Italian resistance movement.
September 9 General Mark Clark, commander of US Fifth Army, initiates Operation Avalanche, Allied landings on the Italian Peninsula at Salerno. British 1 st Airborne Division captures Taranto without opposition in Operation Slapstick. Italian Friuli and Cremona Divisions fight the Germans on Corsica until they are crushed five days later. The ...
Germans repulse this offensive on January 20-21 and inflict heavy losses on the Americans, who pull back across the river after two days. Map of Allied operations in the Anzio-Cassino area in Italy, 1944. Map courtesy of the United States Military Academy Department of History.
March 2 Italian Cremona combat group, coordinating with partisans from the 28 th Garibaldi Brigade, initiates an offensive against Comacchio. March 3 US IV Corps opens the second phase of a limited offensive in the hills northeast of Monte Torraccia and Monte Castello.
