DARBY’S RANGERS SUFFER GRIM END
Cisterna di Littoria, Italy • January 30, 1944 The Allied invasion of mainland Italy began in early September 1943, nearly 6 weeks after the Fascist Grand Council had deposed Germany’s Axis ally Benito Mussolini on July 24–25, 1943, and placed the Italian dictator in detention. Elements of British Gen. Bernard Law Montgomery’s multinational Eighth Army landed at…