Allied landings at Salerno
1943 · Event
Operation Avalanche: the US Fifth Army lands at Salerno and is nearly thrown back into the sea before naval gunfire and the approaching Eighth Army save the beachhead.
On these timelines: Italy (post-476 CE), World War II, Master, USA
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- Benito Mussolini (1883)
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- Mussolini's rule of Italy (1922)
- Galileo's telescope and Sidereus Nuncius (1610)
- Galileo's trial by the Inquisition (1633)
- Italian Republic founded (1946)
- Italy enters WW1 on Entente side (1915)
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