This Day in American Military History

11 August

1943: Operation Husky in Sicily: Axis forces began to evacuate the island.

1943: The Quadrant Conference began. Meeting secretly in Quebec, President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill of Great Britain agreed, among other things, that the Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied France would occur in the spring of 1944.

1967: Previously on the prohibited list, Hanoi-Haiphong in North Vietnam was designated a bombing target for American pilots. U.S. pilots were now allowed to bomb roads and railways within 25 miles of the Chinese border and use rockets and cannons within 10 miles of the border. The original restrictions had been imposed because President Lyndon Johnson feared a possible confrontation with China.

Brandus, Paul. This Day in U.S. Military History (p. 197). Bernan Press. Kindle Edition.