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General Clark is promoted to Commander-in-Chief of Allied forces in Italy (Fifteenth Army Group), while General Lucian K. Truscott is appointed to command of US Fifth Army. December 20-21 Polish and Canadian troops completely drive the Germans across the Senio River.
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September 3 Montgomery’s Eighth Army launches Operation Baytown, an amphibious operation at Reggio di Calabria, the toe of the Italian peninsula. The Badoglio government secretly signs an armistice with the Allies. Map of Allied operations in southern Italy, September 3-25, 1943.
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The battle for Italy. For almost two years during the Second World War (1939-45), the Allies fought an attritional campaign in Italy against a resolute and skilful enemy. Far from being the ‘soft underbelly of Europe’, Italy became one of the war’s most exhausting campaigns. 11 min read.
The Italian campaign of World War II, also called the Liberation of Italy following the German occupation in September 1943, consisted of Allied and Axis operations in and around Italy, from 1943 to 1945.
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Contrary to Winston Churchill's belief that Italy was the "soft underbelly" of Axis-dominated Europe, the Allied campaign in Italy was a long and bloody undertaking. Top image: Five Italian partisans examine a map, location in Italy unknown, probably late 1944 or early 1945.
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Overview and Higher Formations. The campaign in Italy commenced with the invasion across the Straits of Messina on 3 September 1943, and ended with the cessation of hostilities on 2 May 1945, a total of twenty months. This compared with the campaign in North West Europe which lasted eleven months.
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Italian Campaign, World War II Monks searching the rubble of the Benedictine abbey at Monte Cassino in Cassino, Italy, 1944. (more) Farther south the Fifth Army offensive had been halted before the strong defenses of Cassino, where raged some of the bitterest fighting of the war.
