Sicily and the fall of Mussolini

I'm was thinking to started the WW2 topic,because I had a time with it..too much time at home,no work to do and the SPM result will be know next week,hopefully I get a good result..Today,I will introduced the Western allies movement against the Germans,yeah,yesterday we have learn the Soviet movement against those Krauts..The Germans need to be stop,the Soviet successfully do their work by quickly push the Germans back to their initial point before the invasion.However,the Western allies also plan something to drive the Germans from Sicily and Italy.Hitler will faces his greater nightmare,he will lost his ally Bennito Mussolini and also his own troops by the Americans,Polish and British which are the invading forces.

1.The Axis had only 10 Italian division and 2 Germans Panzer Division units stationed at Sicily on 1943..

2.The Allies were preparing to threw some 478000 mens into the island,some 150000 men on the first day of invasion..

3.Under the command of Montgomery's British 8th Army and Patton's US 7th Army,the allies troops was to be landed on two stretches of beach which 40 miles long.The British will take some 20 miles southwest and the Americans will cover another 20 miles south of Sicily..

4.The Allies gained an air superiority,some 4000 Allied warplanes against 1500 Germans and Italians..

5.Sicily collapsed rapidly.The British drive towards Messina,while the Americans took Palermo on 22nd July 1943..

6.On 25th July 1943,Italian King,Victor Emmanuel III ordered the arrest of Mussolini and formed a new government which entered into secret negotiation with the Allies..

7.Field Marshal Albert Kesselring,the commander of Wehrmacht at Italy evacuated all axis troops from Sicily..it is about some 40000 Germans and 60000 Italians troops safely evacuated across the Straits Of Messina to the mainland..

8.The Allies sustained 22800 casualties,the Axis suffered 165000 casualties,30000 from them was the Germans..