At 3:45 am on July 10, the 160,000 US-UK landing army commanded by Patton and Montgomery took 3,200 warships and transport ships, and under the cover of 1,000 aircraft, landed in the southwest and southeast of Sicily.

In fact, the Sicily landing campaign was just a medium-scale landing campaign carried out by the Allied forces in 1943. However, through this campaign, the Allied forces were able to penetrate into the heart of Italy, laying the foundation for the division and collapse of the Axis Group and Italy's surrender. During this campaign, the Allied forces carried out a series of strategic deception operations and the seizure of sea and air supremacy, which were a model of landing campaigns.

But to be honest, the battle was not beautiful.

"On July 11, the 15th German Armored Division entered the eastern part of the island to prevent the British Montgomery from landing, and the German Goering Armored Division also entered the western part of the island to prevent the US Patton Division from attacking. The German dispatched 480 aircraft to bomb the US beachhead positions, and the US also dispatched aircraft to engage in a melee with the German army. After a day of fierce fighting, the US army defended the beachhead positions. Then the US army advanced to a deep attack and occupied the city of Gera. The British army also occupied Syracuse.

After the German army failed its first counterattack, Marshal Kesselin decided to adjust its deployment and gain time. The German 29th Armored Division and the 1st Airborne Division urgently increased its troops in Sicily. The German 29th Armored Division's mission was to prevent the British from occupying Messina. Then it launched the deployment of the eastern front of Sicily. The German 1st Airborne Division and Gorene's Armored Division also increased its troops in Catania to prevent the British from occupying Messina. On July 13, the 13th British Army reached the 13th Army

Catania launched an attack, but was subjected to tenacious resistance from the enemy. After the attack of the 13th British Army was frustrated, the 30th British Army, with the cooperation of the US, went around Mount Etna and attacked Messina with the cooperation of the US. Patton was worried that Montgomery's British army would play the leading role, so he ordered Bradre's 2nd Army to attack central Sicily to support the British army's operations. At the same time, General Case led a temporary US army to directly attack Palermo.

In order to seize the time with the British army, after occupying Petralia, Bradre's 2nd Army immediately launched an attack along the northern highway and headed straight into Palermo. However, in Trojan, the German army was stubbornly resisted. On August 1, General Alan's infantry 1st Division attacked Trojan. After seven days of fierce fighting, the 1st Division of Infantry occupied Trojan. On August 5, the British 8th Army occupied Kalanya and advanced toward Messina along the east coast highway. On August 10, the German army and Italy were in contact with the United States.

A total of 100,000 troops from Messina to Italy retreated from Messina. The Allied forces' advance towards Messina became a race between the US and British armies. On August 16, the 3rd Division of the US Army arrived at the city of Messina, and on August 17, the 3rd Division of the US Army entered Messina. In the afternoon of the same day, British troops also entered the city. A British officer said to Patton: 'This is an interesting competition, I congratulate you on your victory.' That day, with the US and British troops occupying Messina, the landing battle of Sicily ended with the victory of the Allied forces.

This battle also objectively supported the Soviet Kursk Battle. As the Allies attacked Sicily, the German SS 1 Hitler guard was transferred from Kursk to Italy, thus accelerating the German defeat in the direction of Kursk. In this battle, 5,500 Allies were killed and 14,000 were injured. The German and Italian troops suffered 40,000 casualties and 130,000 were captured. This battle failed to eliminate the vitality of the German and Italian troops, but accelerated the surrender of Italy and the collapse of the Axis powers. Looking at this battle, the Allies carried out a successful battle deception with an absolute advantage in troop firepower, but the battle after landing was not resolute enough, which led to the retreat of the main force of the German and Italian troops. The commanders of the German and Italian troops disagree, which seriously interfered with the deployment of the front line. This is also the reason for the failure of the German and Italian troops.

In any case, the Sicily landing battle was a successful landing battle. Since then, the US military has developed an attack to the west and north and occupied most of the island; the British army was blocked in the Catania region. On the 24th, the US and British troops advanced to the northeast and north respectively, and entered the northeastern city of Messina on August 17 and occupied the entire island. After Mussolini was overthrown on July 25, the new Italian government began to contact with the allies and negotiated a truce." - Revised from "Today in History - On July 9, 1943, the Allies launched the Sicily landing battle."

"The Allies were very cautious from the beginning of the battle, advancing slowly along the coastline, and only forced the Germans to the other side of the narrow strait, the southern end of the Apennine Peninsula. The two sides were in a stalemate until late July when a coup occurred in Italy and Mussolini was driven out of the stage. The Italian king Vittorio Emanuele III arrested Mussolini and secretly sent him to a mountain villa in central Italy. Later, Hitler sent troops to rescue him from there. Later, Mussolini established a fascist republic in northern Italy, protected by Germany, with the capital in the small town of Saro on the coast of Lake Garda.

On September 8, Italy withdrew from the Axis powers and joined the Allies' camp. However, Italy's surrender caused great chaos in the country. Moreover, the chaos further intensified due to the Allies landing on Italy's mainland (September 3, the day when the armistice agreement was signed). In terms of the results alone, the Allies' landing this time became more and more "meaningless", because the British Eighth Army advanced nearly 500 kilometers northward and arrived

The area north of Salerno did not encounter any resistance on the way. The Allied airborne landing plan had no results, and only achieved substantial victory in Taranto on the heel of Italy's "Board Peninsula". What's more troublesome is that the Allied forces also encountered serious chaos and delays here. It is said that the top leaders of the Allied forces also hoped that the Germans at this time were also plotting to overthrow Hitler's coup, just like the coup that overthrew Mussolini in Italy.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content behind! However, the coup that the Allies expected did not happen. The reason is that in terms of eliminating dissidents, Germany's Nazism is much more ruthless than Italian fascism. In Italy, the kings, churches and the army are potential opposition forces, while in Nazi Germany, all opponents were wiped out by iron fist. Coupled with the terrifying propaganda methods and brainwashing ability of Nazis, the entire Germany has been built into a steel chariot from top to bottom.

In mid-August, the German army formed a new army group headed by Rommel, forming a new force in southern Italy, commanded by the famous German general Albert Kesselin. The Germans were lucky that not only the terrain on the toes of the Italian ‘boot peninsula’ was very complicated, which hindered the Allied march, but the Germans also destroyed the bridges in this area in time. The Allied had no choice but to turn the attack point elsewhere. The Americans had expected that because Italy had surrendered, their landing in Salerno would be nothing more than a walk. However, they encountered fierce resistance from German troops that were pieced together.

As the German reinforcements arrived, they launched a counterattack against the Allies. The Allies carried out large-scale air-sea bombings, dropping more than 1,000 tons of bombs a day, barely curbing the German counterattack. The Allies finally captured the province of Salerno and Foggia Airport on September 18. Nine days later, Foggia Airport will play a huge role in the Allies' attack on southern Germany and the Balkans. By early October, the southern part of Italy was completely in the hands of the Allies. However, there were several solid defense lines in front of the Allies, and Kesseling organized a desperate resistance there, and the Germans flooded Peng.

The Fifth Army of the U.S. Army took six weeks to advance more than 10 kilometers in the mud to reach the Gustav Line, the important German defense line. There are many giant castles, such as the Benedictine monastery on Mount Casino, whose solid and thick ancient walls can be seen from a distance. The German army promised that for the protection of historical relics, they would not use the monastery for military purposes. However, the Americans suspected that the Germans would use it to observe their positions, so they launched four attacks on the castle, but failed to capture it.

Finally, the Americans blew up the castle, but still could not advance because the rubble provided good cover for the German army. Moreover, due to the very bad weather, the US army made no progress between January 17 and May 18, 1944. Finally, because the French Algerian army and Moroccan army surrounded the rear of the German positions, 20 Allied divisions defeated the German army on the 30-kilometer-long front. Churchill intended to speed up the Allied forces' operations in Italy. He hoped to use his naval and air superiority to carry out another amphibious landing, and the landing site was chosen in Anzio, southern Rome. This was his last independent strategic deployment. The key to the entire plan was to mobilize large-scale troops.

However, because Churchill's staff needed to transfer the landing craft elsewhere in February, the Allied landing operation in Anzio began at the end of January, which was not the right time because the troops had not recovered from fatigue. Therefore, although the early progress of the operation and the patrol car even drove to Rome, the US commander John Lucas was extremely cautious and always strengthened his position. Then, the German army launched a fierce counterattack. The moth was flooded and mosquitoes grew in large numbers, which had a very adverse impact on the Allied forces. The German army kept bombing the Allied beachheads until late May 1944 when the Allied forces broke through the German defense line.

At this time, the line of Mount Casino had also been broken by the Allied forces. In the battle of the Allied forces, vanity greatly hindered the arrival of victory. After breaking through the German defense line, the US commander Mark Clark did not move forward further and cut off the German retreat from Casino, but began to attack Rome, so as to compete with Eisenhower and Patton. He even arrested British officers who disobeyed the order and also entered Rome. In this way, the seven German divisions retreated eastward without any obstacles, while the Allied attack on Rome was protracted and their achievements were complete.

It is incomparable to the Battle of Normandy. After the Allies landed in Anzio, the Supreme German Command canceled the plan to send five elite divisions of Kesselin to northwestern Europe, which provided great help for the Allies to attack France. However, the cost of the Allies was also very high. Before the capture of Rome, the Allies suffered 43,000 casualties, while the German troops, which were originally stationed in central and southern Italy, retreated and continued to exist for more than a year." - Revised from "Why did Italy withdraw from the Axis powers on September 8, 1943, and joined the camp of the Allies."

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