Italy 1943–1945
Landing beaches, Licata
Landing beach
The story
The westernmost Allied landing. Major General Lucian Truscott's US 3rd Infantry Division came ashore on beaches either side of Licata at dawn on 10 July and took the town and its small harbour on the first day, which quickly became a supply port for Seventh Army. A short stop sets the scale of the whole 150-kilometre invasion front.
What to look for
Walk the harbour mole and look at the beaches to east and west. Optional if time is short: Gela is 35 km east on the SS115.
Plan your visit
Free, public seafront. Drive to Gela 35 km, about 40 min.
Nearby sites
- Gela seafront and pier, Gela · 28 km
- Piano Lupo crossroads, near Gela · 37 km
- 82nd Airborne memorial, Ponte Dirillo · 42 km
- Agira Canadian War Cemetery, Agira · 82 km
- Centuripe, Enna · 91 km
- Robert Capa Photography Museum, Troina · 96 km
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Into Europe: Italy 1943–1945
A free field guide for your phone: the route, the maps and the stories built in, even with no signal. The places of the Allied campaign in Italy, from the Sicily landings of July 1943 through Salerno, the Winter Line, Ortona, Cassino and Anzio, Rome, the Gothic Line and the final battles on the Senio and the Po in April 1945.
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