2-621-845 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

''As the Sun Came Up On Invasion Day: with Pick and Shovel the Way is Cleared', 1943-44. The Allied invasion of Sicily, codenamed Operation Husky, was a major World War II campaign, in which the Allies took Sicily from Italy and Nazi Germany). Husky began on the night of 9-10 July 1943, and ended on 17 August. From The War Illustrated Volume 7 edited by Sir John Hammerton. [The Amalgamated Press Ltd, London, 1943-44]