Featured in sicilyBYTeam MightyFeb 23, 2023ShareHow 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… BYTeam MightyFeb 23, 2023ShareBYRuddy CanoAug 29, 2022ShareWatch this 1943 news reel informing Americans of the liberation of SicilyThree years earlier Italian dictator Benito Mussolini gave the order to invade Libya and take North Africa for himself. The… BYRuddy CanoAug 29, 2022ShareBYJames ElphickJan 19, 2023ShareThis 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 … BYJames ElphickJan 19, 2023ShareBYLogan NyeApr 29, 2020ShareThis battle in North Africa was Germany’s Dunkirk miracleWhen 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… BYLogan NyeApr 29, 2020Share
BYTeam MightyFeb 23, 2023ShareHow 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… BYTeam MightyFeb 23, 2023Share
BYRuddy CanoAug 29, 2022ShareWatch this 1943 news reel informing Americans of the liberation of SicilyThree years earlier Italian dictator Benito Mussolini gave the order to invade Libya and take North Africa for himself. The… BYRuddy CanoAug 29, 2022Share
BYJames ElphickJan 19, 2023ShareThis 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 … BYJames ElphickJan 19, 2023Share
BYLogan NyeApr 29, 2020ShareThis battle in North Africa was Germany’s Dunkirk miracleWhen 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… BYLogan NyeApr 29, 2020Share