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Events on Thursday 16 September 1943 1
1943Allied landings at SalernoOperation Avalanche puts Allied troops on the Italian mainlandThe US Fifth Army landed at Salerno, south of Naples. German counterattacks almost drove the beachhead back into the sea. The landing held, and Allied forces entered Naples on 1 October.