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Sicily

37.07°N 15.29°E3 titles

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What happened here

On 10 July 1943 Operation Husky landed Patton's US Seventh Army and Montgomery's British Eighth Army on Sicily's southern and eastern coasts, after the Mincemeat deception had pointed Germany toward Greece and Sardinia. Special Raiding Squadron commandos silenced the guns at Capo Murro di Porco. The campaign ended at Messina on 17 August, and its shock helped topple Mussolini on 25 July.

Films and series set in Sicily

  1. Paisan

    1946 · Film

    Here in the story

    1. Landing

      On the night of the landings, a village girl guides an American patrol past a minefield and is left alone with a young GI.

  2. Operation Mincemeat

    2021 · Film

    Here in the story

    1. Landing

      The Allied fleet heads for the island the deception was built to hide.

  3. SAS: Rogue Heroes

    2022–2025 · Series

    Here in the story

    1. Landing

      Now under Mayne, the renamed squadron lands in Sicily past drowning glider troops and storms a coastal battery.

Events at Sicily

  1. Diplomacy

    Italy signs an armistice

    Italy secretly signed an armistice with the Allies at Cassibile, announced on 8 September. Germany immediately occupied most of the country and freed Mussolini, and Italy became a battlefield until 1945.

    Read more on Wikipedia

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