38 (Irish) Brigade land at Taranto
Event
Sat, 09/25/1943 - Wed, 09/29/1943
From 25-29 September 1943, 38 (Irish) Brigade landed and concentrated at Taranto, southern Italy.
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'I turned over one poor chap on a rocky, bloody crag on Tanngoucha. He was facing the right way, the last round of a clip in the breech and three dead Germans in front of him. His name was Duff. After all is over - and the remainder of the Empire is understandably irritated with Ireland - I hope these countless Duffs, from both the North and the South, and in all three services, will be remembered.
(Brigadier Nelson Russell, Commander 38 (Irish) Brigade, 1942-44)
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