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A series of day and night bombing raids by the US 8th Air Force and RAF bomber command. The concentrated bombing of the Hamburg town center created firestorms that resulted in the death of at least 50,000 people.

The largest amphibious operation of the war in terms of men landed on the beaches and of frontage. Strategically, Husky achieved the goals set out for it by Allied planners. The Allies drove Axis air and naval forces from the island

Operation Chastise was the official name for attacks carried out by RAF 617 Squadron on German dams using a specially developed "bouncing bomb". The Mohne and Eder dams were breached, causing catastrophic flooding of the Ruhr valley.

As the last remaining German defenders in Tunisia are swept away, British tanks enter Tunis.

The RN submarine Seraph deposits a corpse containing misleading documents that helped to convince the German high command that the Allies planned to invade Greece and Sardinia in 1943 instead of Sicily, the actual objective.