D-Day Dodgers
The D-Day Dodgers is a term for those Allied serviceman who fought in Italy during the Second World War. The name only arose, of course, after they had been fighting for a year, once the Allies landed more famously in Normandy on D-Day. Though initially meant to be demeaning, the troops involved used the term for themselves with a certain bitter humour. After all, they fought an extremely long and bitter war against fierce opposition.
See also
- Operation Husky
- Allied invasion of Italy
- Winter Line
- British military history of World War II
- Nancy Astor, alleged coiner of the phrase.
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