Allied invasion of Italy
1943 military campaign of World War II resulting in the fall of Fascist Italy / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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. 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 of Sicily. The main invasion force landed on the west coast of Italy at Salerno on 9 September as part of Operation Avalanche, while two supporting operations took place in Calabria (Operation Baytown) and Taranto (Operation Slapstick).
Invasion of Italy | |||||||
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Part of the Italian campaign of World War II | |||||||
Troops and vehicles being landed under shell fire during the invasion of mainland Italy at Salerno, September 1943. | |||||||
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India[1] | |||||||
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Waman Naik Salvi[1] | |||||||
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189,000 (by 16 September) | 100,000 | ||||||
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3,500 casualties[2] (incl. 630 killed)[2] |