The Italian Campaign was the set of military operations conducted by the Allies during the Second World War, from June 1943 to May 1945, to invade and force the surrender of the Kingdom of Italy, in order to cause the escape from ‘ Axis. As a result of unconditional surrender on 8 September 1943 also [...]
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Italian Campaign
May 21st, 2013 
admin Allied invasion of Italy
May 20th, 2013 admin The Operation Avalanche is one of the main operations of Allied troops landed on the peninsula italy detached during the Second World War. This landing took place near Salerno while two diversionary operations take place in Calabria (Operation Baytown) and Taranto (Operation Slapstick). Context Pressed by Stalin to open a front in Western Europe to [...]
Operation Mincemeat
May 20th, 2013 admin Operation Mincemeat was a successful British deception in the Second World War, by which you could see the German High Command (OKW) convince them that the Allied invasion in the Balkans and Sardinia prepare instead of Sicily, the actual objective. To achieve this, you had to give the Germans the belief that they had captured [...]
Bombing of the Vatican
September 5th, 2012 admin The bombing occurred on Vatican during the Second World War. The attack On the evening of 5 November 1943, a SIAI Marchetti SM 79 Italian bomber known as the “Sparviero” offViterbo,Italy: it dropped five bombs on St. Peter’s Basilica at theVatican. Only four of the five bombs will explode. Historical context TheVaticanremains neutral throughout the [...]
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No Comments »Gustav Line
June 28th, 2012 admin One of the three was the main Gustav Line, which passed across the north of Italy where there was a spill Garigliano River Tyrrhenian Sea in the west, through the Apennine Mountains to the Adriatic coast near Sanger in the East River. Center line, crossing the road north to Rome (Highway 6) was set up [...]
Operation Baytown
June 27th, 2012 admin Operation Baytown was a part of Italy Campaign during the Second World War on September 3, 1943. Orders for this operation were not given that on August 16. The operation consisted the landing by sea of the 13th Army Corps and the British Eighth Army British inReggio di Calabria. It allowed the Allied forces to [...]
Operation Mincemeat
June 26th, 2012 admin Operation Mincemeat (literally “mincemeat”) was a British plan during World War II intending to convince the German General Headquarters (OKW) that the Allies would invade the Balkans and Sardinia instead of Sicily, which was their real objective. The operation was designed to convince the High Command that the Germans had managed to intercept highly confidential [...]
Operation Barclay
June 26th, 2012 admin Operation Barclay was during World War II as an Allied deception in support of the invasion of Sicily in 1943. By this operation, the military leadership deceived the Axis powers on the actual distribution of allied forces in the Mediterranean and the attention from the real target of Sicily of the Balkans was directed. For [...]
Mediterranean, Middle East and African theatres of World War II
June 25th, 2012 admin Campaigns in Africa, the Middle East and Mediterranean World War II took place from 1940 to 1945, which includes all military operations being conducted in Africa, the Middle East, in the territories bordering the Mediterranean Sea and the countries ofSouthern Europeoccupied after the victory of the Axis powers on the Western Front in 1940. That [...]
Italian Campaign
June 23rd, 2012 admin This article is about a lot of Allied operations in Italy during World War II. The Campaign of Italy was the set of military operations by the Allies during the Second World War, from June 1943 to May 1945, to invade, and compel the surrender of the United Italy, in order to cause the escape [...]
