Fifth Army lands at Salerno - Sept 10, 1943

[Walt's Daughter]

To commemorate a great D-Day - Fifth Army lands at Salerno - Sept 10, 1943

 

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.