the invasion of Italy
The Allied Invasion of Italy was the Allied landing on mainland Italy on 3 September 1943, by General Harold Alexander's15th Army Group (comprising Lieutenant General Mark Clark's U.S. Fifth Army and General Bernard Montgomery's British Eighth Army) during the Second World War.
by 1943 Germans finally defeated in North Africa
1942 El Alamein won by British cutting Germans off from Middle East oil
by 1943 Germans finally defeated in North Africa
1942 El Alamein won by British cutting Germans off from Middle East oil