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BYTeam Mighty

Feb 23, 2023


How mafioso Lucky Luciano helped the Allies invade Sicily in 1943

“In view of the friendly feeling towards America entertained by a great number of citizens of Italy,” President Franklin Roosevelt…

Lucky Luciano

BYTeam Mighty

Feb 23, 2023

BYRuddy Cano

Aug 29, 2022


Watch this 1943 news reel informing Americans of the liberation of Sicily

Three years earlier Italian dictator Benito Mussolini gave the order to invade Libya and take North Africa for himself. The…

sicily

BYRuddy Cano

Aug 29, 2022

BYJames Elphick

Jan 19, 2023


This is why Nazis dubbed these paratroopers ‘devils in baggy pants’

Few units receive their nicknames from their exploits in combat. Even fewer derive their moniker from what the enemy calls them. But for the 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment that is exactly what happened in Italy in 1944. The …

World War II photo

BYJames Elphick

Jan 19, 2023

BYLogan Nye

Apr 29, 2020


This battle in North Africa was Germany’s Dunkirk miracle

When German and Italian forces began to collapse in Sicily in World War II, it became clear that they could either fight to the last man or could evacuate the 100,000 men and gear to Italy to man a series of defensive lines that would cost the Allie…

World War II photo

BYLogan Nye

Apr 29, 2020

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