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Eighth Army Released for Sicily Training

Great Britain · Warfare / World War, 2nd. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1943

Bernard Law Montgomery Alamein, 1st16 May 1943

North Africa · Warfare / World War, 2nd

Withdraws Eighth Army from the closing Tunisian operations to prepare for the Sicily invasion.

Names involved

Bernard Law Montgomery Alamein, 1st

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