Reggio di Calabria landings

The Oxford Companion to World War II | 2001 | 622 words | Copyright

Reggio di Calabria landings, opening move in the Allied Italian campaign which took place on 3 September 1943 after a preliminary bombardment by warships and heavy air attacks on Axis airfields and communications. Three Canadian brigades crossed the strait of Messina from Sicily to spearhead landings of part of Montgomery's British and Commonwealth Eighth Army near Reggio di Calabria. Montgomery's objective was to clear the toe of Italy before moving northwards in conjunction with Allied forces landing at Salerno. The operation was not opposed as the German High Command had concluded that Calabria was expendable.

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