Gothic Line order of battle is a listing of the significant formations that were involved in Operation Olive, the Allied offensive on the Gothic Line in northern Italy, August–September 1944, and in the subsequent fighting in the central Apennine mountains and on the plains of eastern Emilia–Romagna up to April 1945.
Contents
- Allied Forces Headquarters Mediterranean
- Allied Armies in Italy until 12 December 1944
- Allied 15th Army Group from 12 December 1944
- US Fifth Army
- British Eighth Army
- German Army Group C
- German Tenth Army
- German LXXVI Panzer Corps
- German LI Mountain Corps
- German Fourteenth Army
- German I Parachute Corps
- German XIV Panzer Corps
- Army Group Liguria
- Army Reserve
- German LXXV Corps Italian French border
- Adriatic Coast Command
- References
Allied Forces Headquarters Mediterranean
Supreme Allied Commander Mediterranean:
General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson (until 12 December 1944)Field Marshal Sir Harold Alexander (from 12 December 1944)Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Mediterranean:
Lieutenant General Jacob L. Devers (until September 1944)Lieutenant General Joseph T. McNarney (from September 1944)Chief of Staff
Lieutenant-General Sir James Gammell (to 12 December 1944)Lieutenant-General Sir John Harding (from 12 December 1944 to 6 March 1945)Lieutenant-General William Morgan (from 6 March 1945)Allied Armies in Italy (until 12 December 1944)
Commander-in-Chief: General Sir Harold AlexanderChief of Staff: Lieutenant-General Sir John HardingAllied 15th Army Group (from 12 December 1944)
Commander: Lieutenant General Mark W. Clark (promoted to full general 10 March 1945)Chief of Staff: Major General Alfred M. GruentherU.S. Fifth Army
Commander:
Lieutenant General Mark W. Clark (until 16 December 1944)Lieutenant General Lucian K. Truscott (from 16 December 1944)U.S. II Corps
Major General Geoffrey KeyesU.S. IV Corps
Major General Willis D. Crittenberger* Order of entry into battle
British XIII Corps (transferred to British Eighth Army in January 1945)
Lieutenant-General Sidney Kirkman (until 25 January 1945)Lieutenant-General John Harding (from 25 January 1945)Independent units under Army HQ
British Eighth Army
Commander:
Lieutenant-General Sir Oliver Leese (until 1 October 1944)Lieutenant-General Sir Richard L. McCreery (from 1 October 1944)British V Corps
Lieutenant-General Charles KeightleyBritish X Corps (until December 1944 and from February 1945)
Lieutenant-General Sir Richard McCreery (until 6 November 1944)Lieutenant-General John Hawkesworth (from 6 November 1944)British XIII Corps (transferred from U.S. Fifth Army January 1945)
see listing above under U.S. Fifth Army)
Canadian I Corps (until February 1945)
Lieutenant-General E. L. M. Burns (until 10 November 1944)Lieutenant-General Charles Foulkes (from 10 November 1944)Polish II Corps
Lieutenant-General Władysław AndersOther Units
German Army Group C
Commander:
Field Marshal Albert Kesselring (until 25 October 1944, from January 1945 until 9 March 1945)General Heinrich von Vietinghoff (from 25 October 1944 until January 1945 and from 9 March 1945)German Tenth Army
Commander:
General Heinrich von Vietinghoff (until 25 October 1944)Lieutenant-General Joachim Lemelsen (from 25 October 1944 to 15 February 1945)Lieutenant-General Traugott Herr (from 15 February 1945)German LXXVI Panzer Corps
Lieutenant-General Traugott Herr (until 26 December 1944)Lieutenant-General Graff Gerhard von Schwerin (from 26 December 1944 to 25 April 1945)Major-General Karl von Graffen (from 25 April 1945)German LI Mountain Corps
Lieutenant-General Valentin Feurstein until March 1945 and then Lieutenant-General Friedrich-Wilhelm HauckGerman Fourteenth Army
Commander:Lieutenant-General Joachim Lemelsen (to 24 October 1944 and from 17 February 1945)Lieutenant-General Frido von Senger und Etterlin (October 1944)Lieutenant-General Heinz Ziegler (24 October to 22 November 1944)Lieutenant-General Traugott Herr (22 November to 12 December 1944)Lieutenant-General Kurt von Tippelskirch (from 12 December 1944 to 16 February 1945)German I Parachute Corps
Lieutenant-General Alfred Schlemm (to 30 September 1944)Lieutenant-General Richard Heidrich (from 1 November 1944 to 23 January 1945)Major-General Hellmuth Böhlke (from 23 January 1945 to 7 February 1945)Lieutenant-General Richard Heidrich (from 7 February 1945)German XIV Panzer Corps
Lieutenant-General Frido von Senger und EtterlinArmy Group Liguria
Commander: General Alfredo GuzzoniArmy Reserve
German LXXV Corps (Italian-French border)
Lieutenant-General Hans SchlemmerAdriatic Coast Command
References
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