The Italy Star was granted for operational service on land in Sicily or Italy at any time during the campaign from the capture of Pantellaria on 11 June 1943 until 8 May 1945, the date of the end of active hostilities in Europe.
Operational service in Sicily up to 17 August 1943; in Sardinia up to 19 September 1943; in Corsica up to 4 October 1943; and in the Aegean, Dodecanese, Greece and Yugoslavia up to 8 May 1945.