Allied Invasion of Sicily in 1 minute using Google Earth 

My granpa always tells me on how the Americans arrived in his town throwing candies and chocolate to the poorest of the poors

Napoleon: “Italy is like a boot, you can only enter it from the top.” Allies: “Hold our cigarettes…”

My great grandfather defended Sicilia, and told a story where as him and other Italiano soldiers waited in a trench, a fight broke out between the Anti-Tank gun crew who wanted to surrender and the infantry who wanted to keep fighting.

“Churchill began referring to Italy as Europe‘s soft underbelly”

0:20 "Patton's taken Palermo" "Damn!"

My great-grandfather was in the Italian Navy during the war (they even gave him a medal for surviving a sinking), he was not in Sicily but was stationed at the naval base of Taranto and when the English invaded he was taken prisoner, but luckily the surrender agreement between the Allies and the Marshal Badoglio prevented him from being taken into captivity in England, instead he and his men were put to guard a fuel depot that the English had built in the port of Taranto. My other great grandfather (who was about 21 years old at the time) however was stationed in Greece in a coastal artillery unit. But after 8 September 1943, his commander ordered my great-grandfather and his comrades to escape and he first went up the Balkans, then crossed the Alps and crossed the entire Republic of Salò, finally reaching Naples (from where in the meantime the Germans had retreated) and he was reunited with his family. And as far as I'm concerned he made the right choice, after all he was still young and this was no longer his war.

It’s so nice getting a history lesson watching your vids every day you deserve much more subs

Rest in peace for those who died in ww2 🕊️

Why are the Italians so good at football???? Because it involves switching sides halfway through

So surreal watching this. My nanna when she was a girl in Malta remembers the Americans massing for this invasion and her cultural shock of seeing an "African American" soldier.

This was AWESOME! Great work.

A Crazy Fact of History: Rome originally spent over *FIFTY YEARS* in a back-and-forth conflict with local Sicilians and the Carthaginians over the island before finally conquering Sicily. The Allies took the same territory in just under 40 days.

hannibal would be proud

Liddle Hart observed that Kesserling was really happy that the Allied never tried to trap the Axis' troops in Sicily. Because he did not have enough soldiers to defend the Calabria.

Outstanding

I LOVE YOUR VIDS😀

Epic video of Carthage winning the 1°Punnic War.

My father took part in the psychological warfare as a non-combattant. He never got over his love for Italy and Italians.

Can you do the battle of Seelow heights??? unless you already did....

Later on, my people the brazilians would help in the war in the allied side, we sent over 25,000 troops to help fight in Italy. Fought many battles, gave civilians food and we din't have much to give, we suffered more than 2,500 casualties, we have a beautiful story in ww2. Thank you Italy for building the The Pistoia Brazilian war cemetery.

I never see anyone discussing a “what if” on had the Allies failed to take Sicily.

Great!

Es difícil de comprender,visto desde hoy,que con la inmensa superioridad aeronaval de los aliados, alemanes e italianos pudieran evacuar de Sicilia a la península tantas tropas. Cierto que el estrecho de Messina no son muchos kilómetros, pero no deja de ser sorprendente que dejaran escapar tantas tropas que,poco después,les esperarían en Salerno.

This reminds when I didn’t know how to play HOI4 , just carelessly wasting millions of men trying to take Sicily as Germany, lol

I first read it as "alien invasion of sicily."

First also love your work ❤

My grandpa remembers it as well, how the America's rolled in and said: ‘hey boy, do you want some chocolate’. He’s still talking about it to this day.

One of my family members got a silver star for throwing a grenade into a nazi pillbox during the invasion of Italy or invasion of Sicily

The problem in Sicily was that many axis forces could get back to Italy bia the strait. 0:50 This happened because of USA general Patton🇺🇲 rivalry against Brittish general Montgomery🇬🇧. They viewed Sicily more as a race to capture the important cities instead of securing the island and trap as many axis armies as they could. Finally, this problem lead, I'm sure, to a harder advance in Italy with the Axis reinforcing their defensive lines: Gothic and Gustav

Don't know Y I watched this but good vid thanks

Missing are the Canadian Flags. The Canadians were also there .

0:52 funny detail or oversight here, as soon as winston churchill says "unconditional surrender" an italian army in the north surrenders

First Guy Speaking - Churchill Second Guy- Hitler Third Guy - Mussolini Fourth Guy - Roosevelt

You should do battle of castiglione

Wow 😮

My mom & grandmother lived in Messina when this happened.

you would say an island like sicily would be easy to defend

America got there first, baby! Go Patton!

can you do tobruk next pls

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Hi can you please do battle of fort meigs

Let goooo

I wonder if the allies could have landed on the toe of Italy and cut off the German retreat. That would have trapped a lot of German troops.

I like how theres more german troops defending italy then italian troops defending italy

Can you please do 1922 Battle of Sakarya?

My Grandpa fought in this exact war he also tells me and my brother how he spotted a German looking for his helmet after he got blinded from a flash grenade and he then helped the German find his helmet then he gave the German a piece of the leftover bread he had and they became friends even tho they were enemies unfortunately the German died in 2017 after having a stroke

My grandfathers uncle was in the American slicy he died in slicy and got ww2 metel

Ike regretted not flanking the retreating Axis by invading the toe of Italy too. would have trapped many divisions they had to later face the next 2 years.

Can you do the Allied invasion of France

Fun fact: Winston Churchill said the fight in the fields speech right after France surrendered

Don Calo's words have the Power...

Hot summer for Allies.

the army who didnt arrive in time pissed me off

WE SHALL NEVER SURRENDER! -Winston Churchill

One troop squadron conquered, three islands rewatch you watch the video to see

Once siciliy and.italy fell, it was game over

I didn't knew im this early till i look commentes

Without the support of mafia never the americans can invaded sicily.

Well Patton was incredible

Every time I hear Churchill's voice I have goosebumps and tears almost start to fall

Allied planners included the 1st Canadian Infantry Division and the 1st Canadian Army Tank Brigade in the initial assault force, a total of 26,000 troops including supporting arms and ancillary units. Please update your unit flags to represent Canada. We are not British and fought under our own banner after Dieppe.

Interesante

Vito Scaletto was there😂

how can I create this video and which program with?

I live in the USA and the UK

Rest in peace those Brave men and women. British, American, Russian etc who stopped the Nazis

Brazil: bruh

I wonder how many Italian American soldiers found relatives who stayed behind in Italy

Pls do Syrian civil war

My dumbass read allies as aliens and just went W H A T .

it's bad for me as an Italian to know that I have been part of such a dark portion of the history of the contemporary world, the only positive thing is that internally no one has ever really surrendered to change and to fight against dictatorship and fascism. may those who had to pay with their lives rest in peace, to teach others that all this should never be allowed again

I don't know if you know, but the Brazilians also invaded ItalyItaly

italy having less troops 2 defend its own country feels terrible

It’s Basically The First Punic War, But Opposite

Once again Canada gets left out

USA: i eat spam😊 GER:

WW2 in a nutshell 🇷🇺🇬🇧🇺🇸⚔️🇩🇪🇮🇹🇯🇵 🇫🇷: what about me 😔

i had a great grandpa who used to tell me hes childhood of him running away with hes family killed by the nazi Bombing in everyway as possible but he told me that some american person helped him out of the tunnel where he went to hide from the nazi but the one that helped him died because it was stucked after the tunnel collapsed and he was the survivor of the tunnel but idk maybe he became a soldier one day?

Terms for Germany was unconditional surrender where we in Afghanistan well

how do you make the animation in high quality?

Canada: why am I Not in the ww2 videos you make I HELP!

Glad to see the Canadian 1st Division is shown as British /s

how do you make these videos?

were like bacteria taking over a petri dish

300 mila uomini, balle. A largo delle coste vi era tutto il mondo

How do you do this

Why did they attack the places where the troops were? It would be easier to land where there is no one

adolf,s voice is so funny🤣

RAGUSA GONNA BE DESTROYED

There is an error the mafia's flag is missing those cowards made a huge contribution

0:24 imagine if the allies do another naval in their back and close the connection hoi4 players probably understand what I am talking about

Where is french troops

Going to be Serious

They forgot the Brazilian army fighting with Britain and USA

"Wii shaal goh on too tha end, wii shaal faiyt in Frahnce, wii shaal faiyt on tha seez and oshunz, wii shaal faiyt with grohing kahnfidans and grohing strengkth in tha air, wii shaal difend owah I-land, whatevah tha kawst may be, wii shaal faiyt on tha beaches, wii shaal faiyt on the landing grahnds, wii shaal faiyt in the feeldz and in the streez, wii shaal faiyt in the hillz; wii shaal nehvah surrrendah..."

Allies to Axis: we shall not settle for anything ess than total victory Allies to Japan: hey i know you did some pretty f*cked up things to those chinese but...

80 ys ago... :) thanks for the commemoration

Well that was fast…

My worst moment😢

Can you do turkish war of independence next