-US in Italy
- Winston Churchill's idea
- weakest part
- Operation Avalanche- west coast of Italy
- Invasion of Sicily
- invaded in July
- Operation Huskie
- helped end the war in Europe
- Italy surrendered on September 8th, 1943
- George Marshall
- Eisenhower
- Douglas MacArthur
-D-Day
- Eisenhower selected June 5, 1944
- Delayed 24 hours because of weather
- June 6, 1944
- Airborne assault-
- part of the D-Day allied invasion of Europe
- largest use of airborne troops up to time
- 13,000 men paratroopers flown in
- 925 C-47’s
- 4,000 men consisting of glider infantry with supporting weapons , medical, and signal units
- 500 gliders later on D-day to reinforce paratroopers
- Paratroopers most difficult task of the operation
- They jumped at night behind enemy lines 5 hours before the coastal landings
- 5 beaches
- Utah beach-
- Added to the plan but was an afterthought
- Omaha beach-
- US and Britain
- Most restricted and heavily defended beach
- Terrain difficult
- Gold beach-
- Object of the 50th division of the British 2nd army
- Primary task seize mulberry and drive inland and seize road junction
- Contact US on right and Canadian on Left
- Funnies- specialist vehicles
- armed with 290 mm mortars, designed for tasks such as clearing obstacles or minefields and destruction of large fixed fortifications
- Juno beach-
- landing area for 3rd Canadian Division
- made deepest penetration of any of the land forces
- Sword beach-
- object of the 3rd British infantry division
- Object was to take Caen
- Caen wasn’t taken until late June
-US bombing Germany
- US air force Mighty 8th
- shot down 23 German planes
- bombed place that helped them win the war
- US 303 heavy bombs
- fire bombs
- killed civilians
- took down homes
- bombing German cites
-VE day and the story of Germany Surrendering
- Surrender unconditional
- Churchill told of the victory on May 7th
- May 6, 1945
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