HMS Upholder prowled the moonlit Mediterranean near Sicily, with Lieutenant Commander Wanklyn spotting a large Axis troop convoy escorted by destroyers. Despite the extreme danger posed by shallow ...

The Nazis took the bait, hook, line and sinker, and skedaddled to Sardinia, smoothing the way for the Allies to take Sicily, a major turning point in World War II. That story, arguably British ...

The Nazis took the bait, hook, line and sinker, and skedaddled to Sardinia, smoothing the way for the Allies to take Sicily and marking a major turning point in World War II. And why not?

Private Roy W. Humphrey is being given blood plasma after he was wounded by shrapnel in Sicily in August 1943. Wikimedia Commons Most fatalities in World War I occurred not from the direct ...

Montagu and Cholmondeley prepare the fake Major Martin’s body in WW2’s greatest deception ... that the real target of the invasion is not Sicily but Greece. One April morning in 1943, a ...