Thursday, June 21, 2018
Operation Slapstick, 9 September 1943
Operation Slapstick, 9 September 1943,
was an amphibious operation that saw the British 1st Airborne Division
capture Taranto without any resistance, giving the Eighth Army a
second foothold in Italy and allowing them to gain control of the
Adriatic coast around Bari and Brindisi.
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