69th Infantry Brigade (United Kingdom) - Operation Husky, Sicily Invasion

Operation Husky, Sicily Invasion

After Tunisia the Brigade still part of 50th Northumbrian Division was involved in the Sicily landings of 1943,Eighth Army, The latter was to operate in the eastern sector, and had as its objectives the port of Syracuse and the airfield at Pachino. Its XIII Corps, (which included 50th (Northumbrian) Division), was to land south of Cap Murro Di Porco with 5th Division on a two-brigade front, 50th (Northumbrian) Division on a one-brigade front. XXX Corps, would operate on three sides of Passero, where the British 231st Infantry Brigade, who had joind the Division to replace the destroyed 150th Infantry Brigadewould advance on a one brigade front. When it landed at Avola their objective was the hills above the landing beaches.

After Sicily the Brigade and Division was then recalled from the 8th Army in Italy, on the wishes of the 8th Army's ex-commander, General Bernard Law Montgomery, together with 7th Armoured Division and 51st (Highland) Division, to prepare for the invasion of North-West Europe

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