On July 10th 1943, 'Operation Husky' saw the landing of British and American troops on which island?
Operation Ladbroke of 362 planes which did not include aircraft held as reserves. Operation Ladbroke Operation Ladbroke was a glider landing by British airborne troops during the Second World War near Syracuse, Sicily, that began on 9 July 1943 as part of Operation Husky, the Allied invasion of Sicily. The first Allied mission using large numbers of the aircraft, the operation was carried out from Tunisia by glider infantry of the British 1st Airlanding Brigade, commanded by Brigadier Philip Hicks, with a force of 136 Waco Hadrians and eight Airspeed Horsas. The objective was to establish a large invasion force on the
Landing Operation on Hainan Island troops retreated to Taiwan. Landing Operation on Hainan Island The Landing Operation on Hainan Island (), also known as the Hainan Island Campaign () or the Hainan Campaign () for short, was a series of battles fought between the Kuomintang (Nationalists) (National Revolutionary Army, NRA) and the People's Liberation Army (PLA) for the island of Hainan during the resumption of the Chinese Civil War in the post-World War II period, and resulted in a Communist victory. The Nationalist strategy was simple: defend the island of Hainan by fending off the imminent Communist attack. The Nationalists formed the General Headquarters of