🇮🇹 ⭐️🇮🇹 Operation Husky Special WW2 History Talk & Walking Tour at Fort Perch Rock Battery 🇮🇹 ⭐️🇮🇹
Friday 11th July 11am till 12.30pm Tour
Training for Operation Husky took place in New Brighton. For a year, The US Army and British Troops underwent vital training for Amphibious Landings to prepare for Operation Husky in Italy which began on 10th July 1943 - 82 Years ago this very day.
Get ready for an inspiring History Talk & Walking Tour with Historian & Author Tony Franks-Buckley.
You will be taken to all the Historic Locations of Wartime in the Seaside Resort in an adventure back in time.
The Allied invasion of Sicily, also known as the Battle of Sicily and Operation Husky, was a major campaign of World War II in which the Allied forces invaded the island of Sicily in July 1943 and took it from the Axis forces (Kingdom of Italy and Nazi Germany). It began with a large amphibious and airborne operation, followed by a six-week land campaign, and initiated the Italian campaign.
Our WW2 Historic Tour features include:
* Learn the History of Fort Perch Rock
* Visit the Location of the US Army Base at the Tower Stadium where The Beatles later played on 27 Occasions
* The Secret Training at the Pools
*Operation Husky Training
*Sir Miles Dempsey and the 8th Army in Sicily and Italy 1943
* The German Spies in Wallasey
* The Maunsell Forts
* The Home Guard
* Life on the Homefront
* The Post War Years
* Visit the Art Murals of the new Victorian Quarter and hear the stories behind the Art
* Visit and learn many other fun and interesting sites of the Victorian Seaside Resort!!!
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