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	List of amphibious assault operations - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is structured chronologically by war, then by theatre during wars such as World War II that covered large areas of the world simultaneously, and chronologically within those theatres.
		Operation Sledgehammer — contingency plan for German collapse in the west
		Operation Gymnast — codename used for proposed invasion of Europe during 1942
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_amphibious_assault_operations (180 words)

	List of amphibious assault operations
		It also covers operations that were planned but cancelled for various reasons.
		Operation Sledgehammer - contingency plan for German collapse in the west
		Operation Gymnast - codename used for proposed invasion of Europe during 1942
	www.starrepublic.org /encyclopedia/wikipedia/l/li/list_of_amphibious_assault_operations.html (115 words)

	Military history of Italy during World War II - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		This operation, operation "Marita", was undertaken in April 1941, and was entirely successful.
		After the Operation Torch landings in West Africa, and the arrival of American forces, the Axis armies in North Africa were defeated.
		British troops crossed the short distance from Sicily to the 'toe' of Italy in Operation Baytown, 3 September 1943.
	www.bonneylake.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Military_history_of_Italy_during_World_War_II (1677 words)

	Operation Baytown (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The invasion of Sicily in July 1943 (Operation Husky) was highlysuccessful, although many of the Axis forces there were allowed to avoid capture and escape to the mainland.
		Its primary objectives were to seize the port of Naples to ensureresupply, and to cut across to the east coast, trapping the Axis troopsfurther south.
		Opposition to the Baytown landings was light, as the Italian units surrendered almost immediately, leaving a single Germanregiment to defend 17 miles of coast.
	www.therfcc.org /operation-baytown-160432.html (1034 words)

	Mediterranean Theatre of World War II - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Germans were unable to prevent the Allied capture of the island, but succeeded in evacuating most of their troops to the mainland, the last leaving on August 17 1943.
		On August 15 1944, in an effort to aid their operations in Normandy, the Allies launched Operation Dragoon — the invasion of Southern France between Toulon and Cannes.
		Mediterranean Theater of Operations (MTO) which was United States military's designation for the theatre for both operational and administrative purposes.
	www.hartselle.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Mediterranean_Theatre_of_World_War_II (1593 words)

	Operation I.D. : City of Baytown, Texas
		Operation identification is a citizens burglary prevention program for use in homes and businesses.
		The Operation ID program involves the marking of property with an identifying number as a means of discouraging burglary and then.
		By participating in Operation ID you are taking one important step to protect your possessions from burglary and theft.
	www.baytown.org /public/police/Programs/operation-id.htm (468 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online: BAYTOWN, TX
		Baytown, a highly industrialized city of oil refining, rubber, chemical, and carbon fl plants, is on Interstate Highway 10 and State Highway 146, thirty miles east of downtown Houston in southeastern Harris and western Chambers counties.
		Due to this pervasive paternalism of Humble, the community of Baytown never incorporated, and this enabled Pelly to annex the "contiguous and unincorporated" territory of Baytown in December 1945.
		Baytown grew in population from 20,958 in 1948 to 67,117 in 1990 and in area from 7½ square miles to more than thirty-two.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/BB/hdb1.html (1074 words)

	World War 2 - Timelines - War in Europe - Southern Europe - 1943
		Operation 'Corkscrew', the invasion of Pantelleria meets little resistance after a 20-day aerial bombardment of the island.
		Operation 'Husky' begins, with the US 82nd and the British 1st Airborne Divisions making the first landings on Sicily at night.
		Operation 'Husky', the Allied invasion of Sicily, is now fully underway with 12 divisions (160,000 men and 600 tanks) of the British Eighth and U.S. Seventh Armies being brought ashore by 3,000 landing craft (200 sunk by rough seas) on the south-east coast of Sicily.
	www.worldwar-2.net /timelines/war-in-europe/southern-europe/southern-europe-index-1943.htm (1721 words)

	Italian Campaign - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Italian Campaign of World War II was the name of Allied operations in and around Italy, from 1943 to the end of the war.
		British forces landed in the 'toe' of Italy on September 3 1943 in Operation Baytown.
		The German prepared defensive line called the Winter Line (parts of which were called the Gustav Line) proved a major obstacle to the Allies at the end of 1943, halting the advance.
	www.bonneylake.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Italian_Campaign (559 words)

	Alexander's Gas & Oil Connections - Calpine to develop 800 MW power plant at Bayer in Texas
		The proposed Baytown Power Plant will generate approximately 700 MW of electricity under baseload conditions, and will have the ability to produce an additional 100 MW of "peaking" power during hot summer months, when the demand for electricity in Texas reaches record-highs.
		The plant is expected to begin commercial operation in late 2001.
		Calpine is the largest independent power producer in Texas, with more than 1,100 MW of capacity in operation and 2,600 MW of capacity in construction or under development.
	www.gasandoil.com /goc/company/cnn95057.htm (503 words)

	Paradox Interactive Forums - Military Operations of World War 2
		Operation Lustre - Britain - Greece - The British troops sent to Greece in early 1941.
		Operation V.5 and Operation Sirio - Italy - Libya - Italian attempts to supply Libya in March 1942.
		Operation Harpoon and Operation Vigorous - Britain - Malta - British attempts to supply Malta in June 1942.
	www.europa-universalis.com /forum/showthread.php?p=2364703 (443 words)

	British Military Aviation in 1943 -- Part 3
		The 'Battle of Hamburg' (Operation Gomorrah): between these dates, Hamburg is subjected to intense raids by RAF Bomber Command (four attacks) and the 8th United States Army Air Force (USAAF).
		Operations against Berlin are suspended in early September due to difficulties in marking targets within the city.
		Units of the British Eighth Army cross the Straits of Messina from Sicily to land, unopposed at Reggio di Calabria, on the Italian mainland (Operation Baytown).
	www.rafmuseum.org.uk /milestones-of-flight/british_military/1943_3.html (766 words)

	Naples-Foggia
		Of the 40 planes involved in the operation, only 15 dropped their cargo within 4 miles of the drop zone; 23 planes scattered paratroopers between 8 and 25 miles from the intended target, and the drop site of the remaining 2 planes was unknown.
		Notwithstanding the Rapido incident and subsequent operations, a secure Mediterranean, excellent bases from which to wage the air war against the Germans, the engagement of at least twenty-three German divisions, and Italy's change in status to an Allied cobelligerent shortened the war and contributed significantly to the defeat of Germany.
		Salerno: American Operations from the Beaches to the Volturno, 9 September-6 October 1943, published in Washington, D.C., by the Military Intelligence Division of the War Department in 1944 (and republished in paperback by the Center of Military History in 1990) provides a contemporary view of the amphibious invasion.
	www.army.mil /cmh-pg/brochures/naples/72-17.htm (8923 words)

	USAAF Chronology, Mediterranean : 1943, Part 2
		Weather hampers operations of the fighters and medium and light bombers of the NATAF, i.e., Twelfth Air Force and RAF aircraft, and only a few targets (guns, roads, railroads, and troops) are attacked during missions over the toe of Italy.
		The squadron is operating a school for fighter pilots until 23 Sep with P-38's, P-39's, P-40's and Spitfires.
		A detachment of the squadron is operating from Capaccio, Italy.
	www.milhist.net /usaaf/mto43b.html (16268 words)

	Military history of Italy during World War II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		However, Graziani did not know howweak the British were and instead chose to stockpile fuel and ammunition, a task which was made difficult due to the activity of Royal Navy forces operating within the Mediterranean to interfere with Italian supply lines.
		After British troops arrived in Greece, Hitler decided that he could not allow his ally tosuffer a defeat and committed German troops to invade Greece via Yugoslavia.This operation, operation "Marita", was undertaken in April 1941, and was entirely successful.
		After the Operation Torch landings in West Africa, and the arrival of American forces, the Axis armies in NorthAfrica were defeated.
	www.therfcc.org /military-history-of-italy-during-world-war-ii-16540.html (2945 words)

	GameSpy.com - Preview
		Operation Husky - Set in January 1943, this fairly large open-space map recreates the Allied beach invasion of Sicily, featuring the British against the Italian army.
		As you can see in the attached screenshots, British forces can paradrop in, and a destroyer off the coast serves as the only major naval unit anywhere in the expansion (although a few other maps contain Higgins boats).
		Operation Baytown - Set on a peninsula with the British to the north and Italy to the south, Baytown takes place in July 1943 as the Allies are driving the Axis from Sicily.
	archive.gamespy.com /previews/january03/1942rtr (725 words)

	List of amphibious assault operations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		It is structuredchronologically by war, then by theatre during wars such as World War II that covered large areas of the world simultaneously, and chronologically within those theatres.
		It also covers operations thatwere planned but cancelled for various reasons.
		Operation Sledgehammer - contingency plan forGerman collapse in the west
	www.therfcc.org /list-of-amphibious-assault-operations-163042.html (116 words)

	1943 INVASION OF SOUTHERN ITALY
		Following the success of the Operation TORCH landing in North Africa in November 1942 and the campaign in Tunisia ending in May 1943, the Allies crossed the Mediterranean for Operation HUSKY, the invasion of Sicily in July of 1943.
		With the fall of Messina on 17 August 1943, the last objective in Sicily, the stage was set for the invasion of the Italian mainland, only 2 1/2 miles from Sicily across the Straits of Messina.
		On 9 September, in a hastily planned operation named SLAPSTICK, with the collaboration of the Italians, 3,600 men of the British 1st Paratroop Division landed unopposed at the port of Taranto in the Italian heel.
	www.olive-drab.com /od_history_ww2_ops_battles_1943soitaly.php (1587 words)

	Articles - Allied invasion of Italy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		However this was cancelled at the last minute when General Maxwell Taylor, on a secrect mission to Rome, learned about the German reinforcements already there.
		The British 1st Airborne Division would be landed by sea near as a diversion near the port of Taranto in the 'heel' of Italy (Operation Slapstick).
		Opposition to the September 3rd Baytown landings was light, as the Italian units surrendered almost immediately, leaving a single German regiment to defend 17 miles of coast.
	www.lastring.com /articles/Allied_invasion_of_Italy?mySession=b4662fbf716e0edb12c5667a792c2bce (1207 words)

	Houston Pilots: More Piloting Info: Exxon Baytown Marine Dock's Pre-Arrival FAX for Ships and Barges
		Quantity and composition of ballast to be discharged ashore.
		Should your operation be terminated for non-compliance with these conditions and wharfage fee of USD 1,000/hr will be assessed immediately.
		All vessels loading at Baytown must be able to close load as defined by ISGOTT Chapter 7.6.3.
	www.houston-pilots.com /mifax.html (1150 words)

	Planet Ark (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The proposed Baytown Power Plant will generate about 700 MW of electricity under baseload conditions and will have the ability to produce an additional 100 MW of peaking power during the summer.
		The Baytown plant will supply Bayer with all of its electric and steam requirements for 20 years, Calpine said.
		Calpine will develop the Baytown Power Plant using its Calpine Construct approach, where Calpine oversees every phase of project development, including the design, engineering, procurement and construction of the plant.
	www.planetark.com /avantgo/dailynewsstory.cfm?newsid=3933 (321 words)

	Planning
		The basic form of the plan was that the “Toe of Italy” was too narrow to allow both armies to fight side by side, and the mountains would disrupt communications, and allow only one supply operation.
		Operating from two man canoes, launched from a waiting submarine, detailed soundings of the water were sent back via the submarine HMS Shakespeare, with the message that there were far more mines in the bay than the high command had envisaged.
		Army launched two divisions across the Strait of Messina and onto the beaches near Reggio (Operation Baytown).
	www.btinternet.com /~oneofmany/html/planning.html (409 words)

	Operation Slapstick - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Operation Slapstick was a part of the Allied invasion of Italy during World War II on 9 September 1943.
		The operation consisted of the landing by sea of the British 1st Airborne Division at Taranto, an important naval base.
		This page was last modified 09:02, 17 September 2005.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Operation_Slapstick (149 words)

	The Gamers Temple - Battlefield 1942: The Road to Rome Review - Page 1
		Operation Baytown takes place in the Straits of Messina between Sicily and Italy.
		The final map is Operation Husky, which was the code name for the invasion of Sicily.
		Allies drop in on parachutes or hit the beach in LCVPs, and their initial objective is to capture the spawn point on the beach.
	www.gamerstemple.com /games2/000467/000467r01.asp (609 words)

	CSI Report #6 Larger Units: Theater Army--Army Group--Field Army
		Operational staff sections were integrated as far as possible, and the principle of balanced personnel was observed.
		The 15th Army Group was responsible for planning the operations allocated by AFHQ and for commanding the operations of Fifth and Eighth armies.
		While the area of operations in Normandy was restricted and it was necessary to keep Supreme Headquarters in Britain, Eisenhower believed he must place control of the land battle with Montgomery.
	www-cgsc.army.mil /carl/resources/csi/bounds/bounds.asp (18496 words)

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	Units & Organizations: British, Canadian, Polish (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The landing at Salerno was considered an American operation, however it included the British 10th Corps with support from Colonel Darby's 1st, 3rd and 4th Ranger Battalions and the 2nd and 41st British Commandos.
		At the last minute of the planning for Operation HUSKY, Churchill recommended that the Canadian troops be used in the invasion of Sicily.
		It had been hoped to employ them in operations across the channel from U.K. but likelihood of such operations has now become extremely remote owing to recent addition to HUSKY of practically all remaining landing craft.
	members.aol.com /Custermen85/Units/BritishOrg.htm (2095 words)

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