01591aam 2200433I 450 991071074680332120160421112351.0GOVPUB-C13-123f0f214b5c8e0991227900eab0288b(CKB)5470000002478839(OCoLC)947049672(EXLCZ)99547000000247883920160421d2009 ua 0engrdacontentrdamediardacarrierNIST special database 32 multiple encounter dataset I (MEDS-I) data description document /Steven Curry; Drew Founds; Joe Marques; Nick Orlans; Craig WatsonGaithersburg, MD :U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology,2009.1 online resourceNISTIR ;76792009.Contributed record: Metadata reviewed, not verified. Some fields updated by batch processes.Title from PDF title page.Includes bibliographical references.NIST special database 32 multiple encounter dataset I Curry Steven573583Curry Steven573583Founds Drew1394694Marques Joe1394695Orlans Nick1394696Watson Craig1394697National Institute of Standards and Technology (U.S.)NBSNBSGPOBOOK9910710746803321NIST special database 32 multiple encounter dataset I (MEDS-I)3452360UNINA03154nam 2200409 450 991016335020332120200109123358.01-78289-455-1(CKB)3710000001046384(MiAaPQ)EBC4809632(Au-PeEL)EBL4809632(CaPaEBR)ebr11350156(OCoLC)974589196(BIP)054586320(EXLCZ)99371000000104638420200109h20131944 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierSalerno American operations from the beaches to the Volturno 9 September-October 6 1943[Place of publication not identified] :Pickel Partners Publishing,2013.19441 online resource (93 pages)Illustrated with 18 maps and 24 IllustrationsEARLY IN SEPTEMBER 1943, British and American armies invaded southern Italy, striking at the heart of a major Axis nation and breaching Hitler's "Fortress Europe." Behind the invasion lay long months of hard-won Allied victories. The Axis was cleared out of Africa in May, when British and American armies annihilated the German and Italian forces cornered in Tunisia. Sicily, the stepping stone from Africa to Europe, was next conquered in a 38-day battle, and on 17 August the last of its German garrison fled across the Strait of Messina to the Italian mainland. On 3 September the British Eighth Army crossed the Strait in pursuit and drove up the Calabrian Peninsula. Coordinated with the Eighth Army's attack, Allied landings at Salerno by the United States Fifth Army and at Taranto by the British 1 Airborne Division were made on 9 September. In the Salerno landings, strong American forces were fighting on the continent of Europe for the first time since 1918.Even before the beginnings of the Sicilian operations, the staffs of Allied land, naval, and air forces had been planning an invasion of Italy. Once established on the Italian mainland, we might hope to secure complete naval and aerial domination of the Mediterranean and to obtain strategic ports and airfields for future operations against continental Europe. If we could knock Italy out of the war, we would force the Germans to retreat north of the Alps or to use in Italy armies which might be fighting on the Russian front.Under the command of Lt. Gen. Mark W. Clark, the Fifth Army, a great Allied force composed of the British 10 Corps and the United States VI Corps, carried out the first large scale invasion of the European mainland and secured a firm base for future operations in Italy. Salerno: The American Operations from the Beaches to the Volturno is an account of the American forces who landed on the beaches in the Gulf of Salerno.Salerno, Battle of, Salerno, Italy, 1943Salerno, Battle of, Salerno, Italy, 1943.940.5421Anon815482MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910163350203321Salerno3583224UNINA