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Eighty years ago the Italian campaign proper gets off to an inauspicious start

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Eighty years ago the allies dip a toe onto the toe of Italy

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Eighty years ago this week Churchill puts his man in to run the war in India

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Eighty years ago this week the Allies hold Germany on the back foot in the Bay of Biscay and Ukraine

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Eighty years ago, the US 8th Air Force showed how much it had yet to learn whilst RAF Bomber Command showed much it had learned

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Eighty years ago this week, probably the Allies best general blots his copy book

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Eighty years ago this week, the US 9th Air Force launches a brave, but futile and costly raid on Romania and the initiative on the Eastern Front swings to the Soviets

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Eighty years ago this week, RAF Bomber Command finally comes of age and the conquest of Palermo masks flaws in allied planning in Sicily

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Eighty years ago, the Italians are softened up for attack and a Red Rat is removed

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Eighty years ago this week the Allies invade Sicily in imperfect harmony and the Duke of Windsor dabbles in detective work

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Eighty years ago this week, Hitler rolls his last dice on the Eastern Front

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Eighty years ago this week Britain sets the seal on its first major victory of the war

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Eighty years ago this week, Churchill clears the decks in India

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Eighty years ago this week, the air battle for Europe takes shape

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Eighty years ago this week the science of bombing steps forward

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Eighty years ago this week an icon of industrial warfare acquires a face and the greatest victor in air warfare receives qualified recognition

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Eighty year ago this week, RAF Bomber Command finally begins to carry out the mission it set itself in 1938 and visionarily-led special forces counter-balance conventional military failure in Burma

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Eighty years ago this week, British church bells ring for victory in Tunisia and a legend is born

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Eighty years ago this week the British army tastes triumph in Tunisia and humiliation in Burma

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Eighty years ago a brutal convoy battle marks a turning point in the Battle of the Atlantic and the US Army comes of age in Tunisia

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Eighty years ago the Soviets launch a decades long campaign of denying their crimes but the Japanese boast of theirs

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Eighty years ago this week Admiral Yamamoto and the German attempt to resupply Tunisia fall victim to Allied command of the air.

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Eighty years ago Bormann steps out from the shadows and Montgomery has another triumphal entry

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From Edxit to Megxit

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