Operation Grapeshot order of battle

Operation Grapeshot order of battle

Operation Grapeshot order of battle is a listing of the significant formations that were involved in the Spring 1945 offensive in the Apennine Mountains and the Po valley in northern Italy, April 1945 – May 1945.

Contents

Allied Forces Headquarters Mediterranean

Supreme Allied Commander, Mediterranean Theatre: Field Marshal Sir Harold Alexander
Deputy Supreme Allied Commander-in-Chief:: Lieutenant General Joseph T. McNarney
Chief of Staff: Lieutenant-General William Morgan[1]
Air Commander-in Chief Mediterranean Allied Air Forces: Lieutenant General John K. Cannon

Allied 15th Army Group

Commander: General Mark Wayne Clark
Chief of Staff: Major General Alfred M. Gruenther

U.S. Fifth Army

Commander:

Lieutenant General Lucian K. Truscott
Army Troops
  • U.S. 85th Infantry Division (Major General John B. Coulter)
    • 337th Regimental Combat Team
    • 338th Regimental Combat Team
    • 339th Regimental Combat Team
  • U.S. 92nd Infantry Division (Major General Edward M. Almond)
    • 370th Regimental Combat Team
    • 442nd (Japanese-American) Regimental Combat Team (attached)
    • 473rd Regimental Combat Team (attached)
  • 758th Light Tank Battalion
  • 760th Tank Battalion (less two companies)
  • 679th Tank Destroyer Battalion
  • 894th Tank Destroyer Battalion (less two companies)
U.S. II Corps
Major General Geoffrey Keyes
  • Corps Troops
    • Italian Legnano Combat Group
      • 68th Italian Infantry Regiment
      • 69th Italian Infantry Regiment
    • 752nd Tank Battalion
    • 757th Tank Battalion
    • 804th Tank Destroyer Battalion
    • 805th Tank Destroyer Battalion
  • U.S. 34th Infantry Division (Major General Charles Bolté)
    • 133rd Regimental Combat Team
    • 135th Regimental Combat Team
    • 168th Regimental Combat Team
  • U.S. 88th Infantry Division (Major General Paul W. Kendall)
    • 349th Regimental Combat Team
    • 350th Regimental Combat Team
    • 351st Regimental Combat Team
  • U.S. 91st Infantry Division (Major General William G. Livesay)
    • 361st Regimental Combat Team
    • 362nd Regimental Combat Team
    • 363rd Regimental Combat Team
  • 6th South African Armoured Division (Major-General Evered Poole)
    • 11th South African Armoured Brigade
    • 12th South African Motorised Brigade
    • 13th South African Motorised Brigade
U.S. IV Corps
Lieutenant General Willis D. Crittenberger
  • Corps Troops
    • 365th Infantry Regiment (detached from 92nd Infantry Division)
    • 371st Infantry Regiment (detached from 92nd Infantry Division)
    • 751st Tank Battalion (plus one company 760th Tank Battalion)
    • 701st Tank Destroyer Battalion (plus elements 894th Tank Destroyer Battalion)
  • U.S. 1st Armored Division (Major General Vernon E. Prichard)
    • 6th Armored Infantry Battalion
    • 11th Armored Infantry Battalion
    • 14th Armored Infantry Battalion
    • 1st Tank Battalion
    • 4th Tank Battalion
    • 13th Tank Battalion
  • U.S. 10th Mountain Division (Major General George Price Hays
  • 1st Brazilian Division (General Mascarenhas de Morais)
    • 1st Brazilian Infantry Regiment
    • 6th Brazilian Infantry Regiment
    • 11th Brazilian Infantry Regiment

British 8th Army

Commander:

Lieutenant-General Sir Richard McCreery
Army Troops
  • 7th Hussars (amphibious tanks)
  • 12th Lancers (armoured cars)
  • 16th Army Group Royal Engineers
  • 20th Army Group Royal Engineers
  • 22nd Army Group Royal Engineers
British V Corps
Lieutenant-General Charles Keightley
  • Corps Troops
    • 1st Army Group Royal Artillery (Five medium regiments)
    • 2nd Army Group Royal Artillery (Five medium regiments)
    • 6th Armoured Division Artillery
    • 54th Super Heavy Regiment R.A. (less two batteries)
  • Special Forces
    • Two squadrons Special Boat Service
    • Two troops Raiding Support Regiment
    • Italian 28th Garibaldi Brigade (Partisans)
British X Corps
Lieutenant-General John Hawkesworth
British XIII Corps
Lieutenant-General Sir John Harding
Polish II Corps
Major-General Zygmunt Bohusz-Szyszko (acting commander)
  • Polish 3rd Carpathian Rifle Division (Major-General Bolesław Bronisław Duch)
    • 1st Carpathian Rifle Brigade
    • 2nd Carpathian Rifle Brigade
    • 3rd Carpathian Rifle Brigade
  • Polish 5th Kresowa Infantry Division (Major-General Nikodem Sulik)
    • 5th Wilenska Infantry Brigade
    • 6th Lwowska Infantry Brigade
    • 4th Wolwyn Infantry Brigade
  • Polish 2nd Armoured Brigade (Brigadier-General Bronislaw Rakowski)
Army Reserve

German Army Group C

Commander:

General Heinrich von Vietinghoff (to 29th April)
Lieutenant-General Friedrich Schulz (from 29 April to 2 May)
General Heinrich von Vietinghoff (from 2 May)

German Tenth Army

Commander:

Lieutenant-General Traugott Herr

German LXXVI Panzer Corps

Lieutenant-General Graff Gerhard von Schwerin (to 25 April 1945)
Major-General Karl von Graffen (from 25 April 1945)
  • German 162nd (Turkestan) Infantry Division (Major-General Ralph von Heygendorff)
  • 42nd Jäger Division (Major-General Walter Jost)
  • German 362nd Infantry Division (Brigadier-General Alois Weber)
  • 98th Volksgrenadier Division (Major-General Alfred-Hermann Reinhardt to 11 April 1945 then Brigadier-General Otto Schiel)

German I Parachute Corps

Lieutenant-General Richard Heidrich

German LXXIII Corps

Lieutenant-General Anton Dostler
  • Minor units coast watching between the Po and Venice.

German LXXXXVII Corps (transferred to Army Group E on 10 April)

General of the Mountain Troops Ludwig Kübler
  • German 237th Infantry Division (Major-General Hans von Grävenitz until late April then Colonel Karl Falkner)
  • German 188th Mountain Division (Major-General Hans von Hößlin)

Army Reserve

German Fourteenth Army

Commander:
Lieutenant-General Joachim Lemelsen

German XIV Panzer Corps

Lieutenant-General Frido von Senger und Etterlin
  • German 65th Infantry Division (Major-General Hellmuth Pfeifer)
  • German 8th Mountain Division (Major-General Paul Schricker)
  • German 94th Infantry Division (Major-General Bernhard Steinmetz)

German LI Mountain Corps

Lieutenant-General Valentin Feurstein until March 1945 and then Lieutenant-General Friedrich-Wilhelm Hauck
  • German 114th Jäger Division (Brigadier-General Hans-Joachim Ehlert to 15 April 1945 then Brigadier-General Martin Strahammer)
  • German 334th Volksgrenadier Division (Major-General Hellmuth Böhlke)
  • German 232nd Infantry Division (Major-General Eccard Freiherr von Gablenz)
  • German 148th Infantry Division (Major-General Otto Fretter-Pico)
  • 1st Bersaglieri "Italia" Division (Major-General Mario Carloni)

Army Group Liguria

Commander: Marshal Alfredo Guzzoni

Corps Lombardia

Lieutenant-General Kurt Jahn
  • 3rd Italian "San Marco" Marine Infantry Division (Major-General Amilcare Farina)
    • 3rd Marine Infantry Regiment
    • 5th Marine Infantry Regiment
  • Battle Group Meinhold
    • Fortress Brigade 135
    • 4th Italian "Monte Rosa" Alpine Division (elements)

German LXXV Corps

Lieutenant-General Hans Schlemmer
  • 2nd Italian "Littorio" Infantry Division (Major-General Tito Agosti)
    • 3rd Infantry Regiment
    • 4th Alpine Regiment
  • German 5th Mountain Division (Brigadier-General Hans Steets)
  • German 34th Infantry Division (Major-General Theobald Lieb)
  • 4th Italian "Monterosa" Alpine Division (bulk of) (Colonel Giorgio Milazzo)
    • 7th Alpine Regiment
    • 8th Alpine Regiment

Army Group Reserve

Notes

  1. ^ Jackson (1988), p. 196.

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