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On 10 July 1943 allied troops landed in Sicily.
Here is an unedited video of the landing and the passage of the troops, after the battle, through some Sicilian countries.
Video of the archive of the Imperial war Museum of London.
Sicily, Normandy of Italy: travel in the Second World War
Eighty kilometers, up to Syracuse, along which there were sixty thousand dead and missing Italians, Germans, Americans, Canadians, Scots (the Highlanders) and especially the British.
The latter made up the bulk of the invasion corps on the east coast of Sicily: 125,000 men from the British Eighth Army under the command of the winner of El Alamein, General «Monty» Montgomery. As in Normandy there were the Sword beach, the Juno beach, the Gold beach, the Utah beach, and the most famous of all, the Omaha beach (Omaha Beach), so in Eastern Sicily there were the "Red Beach" in Portopalo (included the island of Capo Passero, Portopalo, the tonnara and the lighthouse), the "Sugar Beach" and the "Roger Beach" up to Vendicari, south of the capital of the Baroque Noto (where today there is the Natural Reserve ). And then the "Green Beach" in Marzamemi (the Arab "Bay of larks") where Monty lands on 11 July 1943. Pachino, home of the famous tomato, was the first municipality in Europe to be freed by the Allies on 12 July .