The Italian campaign of World War II, also called the Liberation of Italy following the German occupation in September 1943, consisted of Allied and Axis operations in and around Italy, from 1943 to 1945.

Contrary to Winston Churchill's belief that Italy was the "soft underbelly" of Axis-dominated Europe, the Allied campaign in Italy was a long and bloody undertaking.

Events from the year 1944 in Italy. Northern Italy is formally ruled by the Mussolini ’s Italian Social Republic. The effective power in Italy was in the hands of the German and allied occupiers.

Nov 18, 2009 · As General Clark’s Fifth U.S. Army moved into Rome on June 4, 1944, the D-Day landings in Normandy, scheduled for June 6, took priority over the Italian Campaign. Six Allied divisions were...

1 day ago · The combined attack, which was started in the night of May 11–12, 1944, succeeded in breaching the German defenses at a number of points between Cassino and the coast. Thanks to this victory, the Americans could push forward up the coast, while the British entered the valley and outflanked Monte Cassino, which fell to a Polish corps of the ...

Italian Campaign, World War II Monks searching the rubble of the Benedictine abbey at Monte Cassino in Cassino, Italy, 1944. (more) Farther south the Fifth Army offensive had been halted before the strong defenses of Cassino, where raged some of the bitterest fighting of the war.

The Battle of Anzio was a battle of the Italian Campaign of World War II that commenced January 22, 1944. The battle began with the Allied amphibious landing known as Operation Shingle, and ended on June 4, 1944, with the liberation of Rome.

From 1943 to 1945, the Allies fought an attritional campaign in Italy against a resolute and skilful enemy. Far from being the ‘soft underbelly of Europe’, Italy became one of the Second World War’s most exhausting campaigns.

In January 1944, the battle of Monte Cassino started and it lasted a few months. The allies won, they liberated Rome and pushed up the Italian mainland. In April 1945, allied forces made the last offensive into Italy, Mussolini was executed by an Italian partisan on the 28th of April.

Feb 4, 2024 · British forces began the attack on the Gothic Line on September 10, 1944. Again the Italian mountains helped the Germans. The British Eighth Army, the American 10th Mountain Division, and many other units, fought a hard battle through Ravenna and up the Po Valley through April 1945.