Birtle Andrew J. Sicily (U.S. Army Campaigns of World War II)

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Dept. of the Army, 1994 - 28 p.

Center of Military History Publication.
Covers the Allied invasion of Sicily from July9 to August 17, 1943. Sicily was the first piece of the Axis homeland to fall to the Allies during World War
2. Includes a color map, black and white photographs, and suggestions for further reading.

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