Actually, Allied forces took Rome on June 4th. It was largely overshadowed by D-Day.
I always wonder how deep down Churchill felt about that. Invading Italy was Churchill's baby, and for the longest time he thought that was the way to go instead of France. And then Rome falls, and then suddenly everybody forgot all about that when D-Day happened.
The year I graduated and later joined the USN, I worked with a man who fought in Italy and Yugoslavia, a Army infantrymen who went to Europe, and a Tincan sailor who served in the Pacific fighting the Japanese. Vietnam was hot and I had signed up trying to avoid the draft, dad was 82nd Airborne and convinced me to get somewhere besides the Jungle. So I ended up in submarines. Everything they all told me was truth. Kids now days could use a stint in at least basic training.