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  2. Operation Ladbroke - Wikipedia

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    Map showing the landing areas during the invasion of Sicily, July 1943. As there were insufficient transport aircraft for all three brigades to conduct their operations simultaneously, it was decided that the first operation would be Ladbroke, whose objective was the capture of the Ponte Grande Bridge. [8]

  3. War of the Sicilian Vespers - Wikipedia

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    [3] [5] Frederick's lands in Sicily and the Holy Roman Empire surrounded the papal states, and thus trapped the Pope between the metaphorical German hammer and Sicilian anvil. [6] Frederick II was one of the greatest, most energetic, imaginative and capable rulers of the entire Middle Ages.

  4. 830 Naval Air Squadron - Wikipedia

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    These included torpedo attacks against merchant ships and their Royal Italian Navy warship escorts, and also bomb attacks on port installations in Sicily and Libya. In July 1941 the squadron began operations with ASV RDF airborne radar to locate ships. [1] Operations were mostly by night, with some dusk bombing sorties to Sicily.

  5. Sicilian Vespers - Wikipedia

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    The event takes its name from an insurrection which began at the start of Vespers, the sunset prayer marking the beginning of the night vigil on Easter Monday, 30 March 1282, at the Church of the Holy Spirit just outside Palermo. [8] [9] Beginning on that night, thousands of Sicily's French inhabitants were massacred within six weeks. The ...

  6. 5 bodies recovered from sunken superyacht off Sicily as ... - AOL

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    Five bodies have been recovered from the superyacht that sunk off the Sicilian coast, ABC News has confirmed, with the final missing passenger's body also now located inside the vessel. The fifth ...

  7. Allied invasion of Sicily - Wikipedia

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    On the night of 29 July, the British 78th Division with the 3rd Canadian Brigade under command, took Catenuova and made a bridgehead across the river Dittaino. On the night of 1 August, they resumed their attack to the northwest toward Centuripe, an isolated pinnacle of rock, which was the main southern outpost of the Adrano defences.

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