"OPERATION FERDY" - 8 SEPT. '43: ALLIED LANDING AT VIBO VALENTIA MARINA, ITALY
8 sept. 1943 . Italy was practically out of the war. Mussolini had been toppled from power and a fresh invasion was underway. A new Allied army, the Fifth under U.S. General Mark Clark was about to be landed at Salerno, just south of Naples. It was essential that Montgomery’s troops should join up with them. A lightning operation was planned with no time for rehearsals. The plan was to land a large body of troops behind enemy lines in the Italian ‘toe’. Their purpose was to interfere with enemy withdrawal, prevent demolition of roads and bridges and thus aid the advance of the British 8th Army. The landing was to take place at Vibo Valentia Marina, a little port 25 miles up the toe of Italy. Wooded hills rise steeply above the road and railway along which the enemy’s guns and transport would have to pass. 24 landing craft ferried the troops accompanied by 18 tank landing craft and 2 tank landing ships carried the necessary guns and vehicles. In support were Aphis and Scarab ba...
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L'autonomia non è un sogno nato da un delirio ma un desiderio che nasce da un bisogno concreto e dalla necessità di vedere una comunità finalmente unita, dopo anni di frammentazione e di fuga di cervelli, di famiglie spezzate e speranze represse.
Dobbiamo andare avanti e coltivare questo progetto come il giardiniere cura le sue piante, come un architetto realizza le sue opere, come un medico cura i suoi pazienti, come uno scalpellino modella la sua pietra...non per dovere del lavoro ma per passione, perchè questa terra martoriata è amata dai suoi cittadini.