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Messina Reached after Sicily Campaign

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

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1943

Bernard Law Montgomery Alamein, 1st17 August 1943

Messina · Warfare / World War, 2nd

Eighth Army reaches Messina as organised Axis resistance in Sicily ends.

Names involved

Bernard Law Montgomery Alamein, 1st

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