On 10 July 1943 the US 1st Infantry Division and Darby's Rangers landed at Gela, on Sicily's southern coast, at the start of Operation Husky, while paratroopers of the 82nd Airborne dropped inland. On 11 July Italian units and the Hermann Göring Panzer Division counterattacked toward the beaches; American infantry and naval gunfire from offshore cruisers and destroyers threw them back.
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Landing
Relegated to guarding Montgomery's flank, Patton lands his Seventh Army on the south coast of Sicily.
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Landing
Reunited, the four surviving riflemen land in Sicily and fight their way through its hill towns.
War
American and British forces landed in Sicily and took the island in five weeks. The invasion led to Mussolini's fall on 25 July and opened the way to the Italian mainland.
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