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Operation Corkscrew
During World War II, Operation Corkscrew was the Allied invasion of the Italian island of Pantelleria[?] (between Sicily and Tunisia) on 10 June 1943.
Following a ten-day bombardment, the Italian garrison surrendered when the British forces landed on the island.
The Italian garrisons on other nearby islands (Linosa[?] and Lampedusa[?]) quickly fell. This cleared the way for the invasion of Sicily a month later.
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