Timeline Tuesday 17 August 1943

Events on Tuesday 17 August 1943 1

• 1943 Allied invasion of Sicily Operation Husky opens the Italian campaign American, British and Canadian forces landed in southern Sicily in one of the largest amphibious operations of the war. They took the island in 38 days, although many German troops escaped across the Strait of Messina. The invasion hastened the fall of Mussolini.