Operation Husky

The Allied invasion of Sicily on 10 July 1943. In the first day of the landing over 160,000 troops and six hundred tanks arrived and seized Syracuse.

The entire island was in Allied hands after thirty-nine days of fighting. This new blow against the Axis was conducted at the same time as the German attack that launched the huge Battle of Kursk (Citadel[?]). The Germans found themselves faced with a sudden and unexpected diversion of their resources from the fight in Russia.

 See Barclay, Chestnut, Corkscrew, Fustian, Ladbroke, Pommegranate, and Narcissus.