Invasion of Italy
Operation Husky:
- 1942 El Alamein won by British cutting Germans off from Middle East oil
- 1943 Germans finally defeated in North Africa
- 9 July 1943 Allies land in Sicily
- Italians deposed Mussolini during the Sicily invasion and removed the Fascist government
- Hitler moved the Germans in to take over the ocuntry and rescued Mussolini by plane to Germany
- 9 sept, 1943 Allies land at Salerno on the Italian mainland
- 4 June 1944 to get to Rome
- Fighting continued until 2 May 1945
- Mussolini hung with his mistress near Milan in April 1945