Why Italy
In Italian history, what is specifically significant about September 8, 1943?
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- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1943#August-September September 8 - World War II: United States General Dwight D. Eisenhower publicly announces the surrender of Italy to the Allies and the USAAF bombed the German General Headquarter for the Mediterranean zone Frascati bombing raid September 8, 1943.
- Italy surrenders in world war 2
- That's the day before the Invasion of Italy. http://www.worldwar2database.com/html/italy43_45.htm
- That was the day that Italy formally surrendered to the Axis Powers in World War 2. Allied Forces had already invaded and occupied the island of Sicily and were, literally hours from invading mainland Italy (Allied Assault troops stormed onto becahes near Naples the next morning.) The Italians, never particularly eager to fight for the Axis with their German allies, finally folded and surrendered. It didn't matter much because the Germans rushed in and quickly made sure Italy would not fall entirely into allied hands by forcibly seizing key government and military infrasurtcture. Although there was a wild plan codenamed "Operation: Giant" that called for the parachute drop of the 82nd Airborne onto Rome to try and prevent this from happening. The mission was aborted at the last moment due to it's low chance of success.
- Looks like the Italians surrendered to Eisenhower in WWII. It's also right around the time of the Allied invasion to Italy. I just googled the date and Italian history: http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=HPIB,HPIB:2005-17,HPIB:en&q=September+8%2C+1943+Italian+history
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- i think italy (rome) surrenders in ww2 on that day...im not sure what that has to do with cinema but thats what happened on that day
- General Dwight D. Eisenhower publicly announces the surrender of Italy to the Allies and the USAAF bombed the German General Headquarter for the Mediterranean zone Frascati bombing raid September 8, 1943. Basically Italy is no longet allied with Hitler
