Turin Steelworks

Turin was a crucial industrial city, situated in Italy’s mountainous Northwest. Though far from the Allied landings at Anzio and Salerno, Turin bore the brunt of bombing campaigns as early as 1940. By 1945 the city had been bombed by no fewer than 40 sorties, ruining much of its infrastructure and manufacturing capabilities. Turin finally changed hands early in 1945, when a Partisan-led insurgency took control of the city, just before Allied ground forces arrived.