Allied invasion of Sicily
{'<entity_0>': 'Allied invasion of Sicily', '<entity_1>': 'George S. Patton', '<entity_2>': 'Operation Husky', '<entity_3>': 'World War II', '<entity_4>': '09 July 1943', '<entity_5>': '17 August 1943', '<entity_6>': 'Sicily', '<entity_7>': 'Europe', '<entity_8>': 'Italy'}
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The <entity_0>, codenamed <entity_2>, was a major campaign of <entity_3>, in which the Allies took the island of <entity_6> from the Axis powers (Fascist <entity_8> and Nazi Germany). Husky began on the night of <entity_4>–10 <entity_4>, and ended on <entity_5>. The collapse of <entity_8> necessitated German troops replacing the Italians in <entity_8> and to a lesser extent the Balkans, resulting in one fifth of the entire German army being diverted from the east to southern <entity_7>, a proportion that would remain until near the end of the war. The plan for <entity_2> called for the amphibious assault of <entity_6> by two Allied armies, one landing on the south-eastern and one on the central southern coast. The British Chiefs of Staff were in favour of an invasion of <entity_6> or Sardinia, arguing that it would force Germany to disperse its forces and might knock <entity_8> out of the war and move Turkey to join the Allies. Once the Axis forces had been defeated in Tunisia, the Allied strategic bomber force commenced attacks on the principal airfields of Sardinia, <entity_6> and southern <entity_8>, industrial targets in southern <entity_8> and the ports of Naples, Messina, Palermo and Cagliari (in Sardinia). On 11 July, <entity_1> ordered his reserve parachute troops from the 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment (minus the 3rd Battalion already deployed in <entity_6>, attached to the 505th) under Colonel Reuben Tucker, part of Major General Matthew Ridgway's 82nd Airborne Division, to drop and reinforce the center.
['military campaign']