Eighty-two years ago today, on September 3, 1943 (August 4, 1943), Italy surrendered to the Allies. After the Allies landed in Salerno and established a beachhead, the commander of the landing force, British General Harold Alexander (left), the commander of the Allied ground forces Mark Malak (center) and the commander of the British Tenth Army, Lieutenant General Richard McCreery, inspected the beachhead together. After the Allied landing in Salerno, Italy in September 1943, they advanced rapidly, and the Italian crowd came out of their homes to welcome the arrival of the Allied troops. American officers studied the battle plan on the hills west of Salerno. Mussolini and Nazi leader Goering in Astanburg. Clark Betasi, Mussolini's mistress