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Allied invasion of Sicily

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The location here is in the area of where Patton landed the seventh army but Montgomery also landed to the east with the British eighth army.

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Allied invasion of Sicily

The Allied invasion of Sicily, codenamed Operation Husky, was a major World War II campaign, in which the Allies took Sicily from the Axis Powers (Italy and Nazi Germany). It was a large scale amphibious and airborne operation, followed by six weeks of land combat. It launched the Italian Campaign.

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