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Operation Husky

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      Mark and few friends took a trip out to the beaches of Southern Sicily to visit where operation Husky happen during World War 2. On July 9/10 1943, Americans, British and Canadians invaded the island of Sicily to drive out the Germans and Italians forces giving the allies a foothold into Europe.


The beach landing site in Gela.





The town of Gela.

One of the many pill boxes in the "Valley of death" 


    We stopped at the battle site for the Dirillo river.  It was an important site due to a bridge that needed to be taken from the Italians and Germans.  There are many pillboxes and gun emplacements all over the island but few have bullets holes on them such as this one.


Looking out over the river and bridge from one of the pillboxes.




The boy's having fun.



   The property owner who is in his late seventies met us and gave us a tour and showed pictures from his family of the area during the war.


After the tour of sites, we went to lunch at a agroturismo nearby.  



We had a wonderful meal with a nice mix of local foods and wine.






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