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 | | On 3 September 1943, the British Eighth Army crossed the Strait of Messina to Reggio and moved steadily eastward and northward, eventually joining the British X Corps, which had landed with the Fifth U.S. Army at Salerno. |
 | | Following the Italian surrender on 8 September, a British airborne division landed unopposed at Brindisi, and within a short period, the whole of Region II, comprising the compartments of Calabria, Lucania, and most of Apulia, was firmly in Allied hands. |
 | | The dissimilarity between U.S. and British policies on staff assignments in the Allied Control Commission created unusual and difficult situations; for example, if a British lieutenant were assigned to a position calling for a lieutenant colonel, he immediately would be promoted to, and receive the pay and allowances of, that grade. |
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