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Events on Sunday 12 September 1943 1
1943Gran Sasso raidGerman commandos free MussoliniGerman glider-borne troops landed at the Campo Imperatore hotel on the Gran Sasso, where Benito Mussolini was being held. They freed him without a shot being fired. Mussolini was flown to Germany and later installed as head of a puppet state in northern Italy.