On September 9, 1943, as the Allies invaded mainland Italy at Salerno, the battleship HMS Nelson played a crucial role in the fight. This aging, accident-prone warship, built in the 1920s ...

On 5th June 1944, the Allied invasion force was ready to launch ... In the south, British and American forces had landed in Italy and were slowly moving north. But the most direct route to ...

American and British forces agree that an invasion should take place in Italy, hoping that a defeat would lead to the fall of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. Follow the Allied forces as they ...

Here the allies came very close to defeat at the ... In the same year African troops joined with American and British troops to invade Italy. AFRICA AND FRANCE Britain was never invaded by the ...