- Brigade, part of the
British 1st
Airborne Division.
Their objective was the
Primosole Bridge across the
Simeto River. The
intention was for the brigade, with...
- Lathbury, had been
dropped in
Operation Fustian, an
attempt to
capture the
Primosole Bridge over the
river Simeto, on the
southern edge of the
Catania plain...
-
Paradiso degli Aranci, P****o Cavaliere, P****o del Fico, P****o Martino,
Primosole, Reitano, Vaccarizzo,
Villaggio Delfino Government • Mayor
Piero Mattei...
- both cases, with only 30 out of 125
planes dropping on the Drop Zone at
Primosole.
Early on 14 July, the 69th
Brigade fought the
Germans and
Italians around...
-
Operation Husky with
orders to
capture a road
bridge called Ponte di
Primosole. The
brigade was
hopelessly scattered and the 295
officers and men who...
-
Operation Fustian. This was an
airborne ****ault to
seize and hold the
Primosole Bridge over the
River Simeto,
south of
Mount Etna on the
island of Sicily...
- the
invasion of
Sicily in 1943,
where he was
wounded at the
battle of
Primosole Bridge. On D-Day, the 6th
Green Howards landed on Gold Beach. As his company...
- a
Primosole Bridge HASL
feature with
Rulebook Chapter,
campaign games and
historical map insert. This was
designed by
Randy Yeates. The
Primosole Bridge...
- dis****d
allied paratroopers, but on 14 July the
battalion was
moved to the
Primosole Bridge across the
Simeto river to the
South of Catania,
where in the night...
-
parachuted ahead of the main
force during Operation Fustian to
capture the
Primosole Bridge on the
night of 13/14 July 1943. They then took part in Operation...
