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| 1942 |
| | | Italian director Luchino Visconti's first film, Obsession, brings neorealism to the cinema | |
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| c. 1942 |
| | | US poet Ezra Pound, in Italy during the war, broadcasts Fascist propaganda aimed at the United States | |
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| 1943 July 10 |
| | | British and American troops land in Sicily to begin the Italian campaign | |
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| 1943 July 25 |
| | | The king of Italy, Victor Emmanuel III, has Mussolini arrested and appoints in his place a field marshal, Pietro Badoglio | |
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| 1943 August 3 |
| | | Italians signs a secret armistice with the Allies, as Allied troops land in Sicily | |
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| 1943 August 8 |
| | | British general Harold Alexander is appointed commander-in-chief of all Allied forces in the Italian campaign | |
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| 1943 August 12 |
| | | On Hitler's orders, the SS rescue Mussolini from house arrest in the mountains of central Italy | |
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| 1943 August 16 |
| | | All German and Italian troops are by now driven out of Sicily or captured by the Allies | |
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| 1943 September |
| | | A strong Allied force lands at Salerno, south of Naples | |
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| 1943 September 8 |
| | | Italy, abandoning her Axis partners, surrenders unconditionally to the Allies | |
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