campaign, notable, interwar and Second World War
Operation Baytown
Operation Baytown was a campaign fought in 1943 at Reggio Calabria, in what is now Italy. Its exact site is not recorded; the atlas places it at Reggio Calabria. It was part of World War II, which ran from 1939 to 1945. The recorded result: Allied victory.
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Where it sits in World War II
Record
| Date | 1943 (year precision) | |
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| Place | Reggio Calabria, Italy 38.114N, 15.650E | |
| Kind | Campaign, interwar and Second World War | |
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Nearest engagements
- Siege of Rhegium 386 BC, same recorded site
- Battaglia di Piazza Duomo 1860, 1.1 km E
- Operation Scylla 1943, 8.3 km SW
- Battle of Messana 264 BC, 11 km NW
- Siege of Messina 1282, 12 km NW
In the same war
- Before: Bombing of Pisa in World War II 1943
- After: Operation Gearbox II 1943
- All 1155 engagements of World War II
Elsewhere in 1943
Operation Baytown is one of 4,429 engagements of the 20th century in the atlas and one of 1,038 in present-day Italy.
Sources
Identity, coordinates, dates and the war from Wikidata Q2572890, released under CC0. Result, belligerents, commanders, strength and casualties from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article Operation Baytown, revision 1370630905, read 2026-11-15, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; the article's text is not reproduced here. Present-day country and state from Natural Earth. Dates before 1582 follow the Julian calendar as recorded.