Progress of War 1943
- Joanne Tapiolas
- Jul 15
- 1 min read
9th July to 17th August 1943 Allies take Sicily
19th July 1943 500 USA Army Air Forces bombers hit Rome
25 July 1943 Mussolini arrested and Marshal Pietro Badoglio forms a new government
12th and 14th August 1943 Milan unrecognisable after bombing raids
3rd September 1943 British XIII Corps landed on mainland Italy
8th September 1943 Unconditional surrender of Italy
In August 1943, Maître Chef Sisto 'Luigi' Vergano of London, England wrote a letter to his wife Maria. He provides an insight into internment, Mussolini and the devastation in Italy.
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