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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.

Allied Forces Headquarters Mediterranean edit

Supreme Allied Commander Mediterranean

General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson (thru 12 Dec 1944)
Field Marshal Sir Harold Alexander (from 12 Dec 1944)

Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Mediterranean

Lieutenant General Jacob L. Devers (thru Sep 1944)
Lieutenant General Joseph T. McNarney (from Sep 1944)

Chief of Staff

Lieutenant-General Sir James Gammell (thru 12 Dec 1944)
Lieutenant-General Sir John Harding (from 12 Dec 1944 to 6 Mar 1945[1])
Lieutenant-General William Morgan (from 6 Mar 1945)[1]

Allied Armies in Italy (until 12 December 1944) edit

Commander-in-chief: General Sir Harold Alexander
Chief of Staff: Lieutenant-General Sir John Harding

Allied 15th Army Group (from 12 December 1944) edit

Commander: Lieutenant General Mark W. Clark (promoted to full general 10 Mar 1945)
Chief of Staff: Major General Alfred Gruenther

US Fifth Army edit

Main article: US Fifth Army

  Commander

Lieutenant General Mark W. Clark (thru 16 Dec 1944)
Lieutenant General Lucian Truscott (from 16 Dec 1944)
Independent units under Army HQ edit
Brazilian Expeditionary Force (General Mascarenhas de Moraes) (from November 1944)
U.S. 92nd Infantry Division (Major-General Edward M. Almond) (from November 1944)

British Eighth Army edit

Commander:

Lieutenant-General Sir Oliver Leese (until 1 October 1944)
Lieutenant-General Sir Richard L. McCreery (from 1 October 1944)
British V Corps edit
Lieutenant-General Charles Keightley
1st Army Group Royal Artillery
British 1st Armoured Division (Major-General Richard Hull) (until 25 September 1944)
2nd Armoured Brigade
18th Infantry Brigade
43rd Gurkha Lorried Infantry Brigade
British 4th Infantry Division (Major-General Alfred Dudley Ward) (from October to November 1944)
10th Infantry Brigade
12th Infantry Brigade
28th Infantry Brigade
4th Indian Infantry Division (Major-General Arthur Holworthy) (until October 1944)
5th Indian Infantry Brigade
7th Indian Infantry Brigade
11th Indian Infantry Brigade
British 46th Infantry Division (Major-General John Hawkesworth until 6 November 1944, then Major-General Stephen Weir) (until December 1944)
128th Infantry Brigade
138th Infantry Brigade
139th Infantry Brigade
British 25th Tank Brigade
British 56th Infantry Division (Major-General John Whitfield)
167th Infantry Brigade
168th Infantry Brigade
169th Infantry Brigade
British 7th Armoured Brigade
British 78th Infantry Division (Major-General Donald Butterworth until 10 October 1944 and then Major-General Keith Arbuthnott) (from March 1945)
11th Infantry Brigade
36th Infantry Brigade
38th Infantry Brigade
British 6th Armoured Division (Major-General Horatius Murray) (from 18–23 April 1945)
8th Indian Infantry Division (Major-General Dudley Russell) (from March 1945)
10th Indian Infantry Division (Major-General Denys Reid) (from October 1944 to February 1945)
2nd New Zealand Division (Lieutenant-General Sir Bernard C. Freyburg) (November 1944 to 14 April 1945)
4th New Zealand Armoured Brigade
5th New Zealand Infantry Brigade
6th New Zealand Infantry Brigade
Jewish Brigade (from February to March 1945)
Italian Liberation Corps (1944)[2]
184th Paratroopers Division "Nembo"
I Brigade
II Brigade
Italian Combat Group "Cremona" (from 1945)
Italian 28th Brigade "Garibaldi" (from 1945)
British X Corps (until December 1944 and from February 1945) edit
Lieutenant-General Sir Richard McCreery (until 6 November 1944)
Lieutenant-General John Hawkesworth (from 6 November 1944)
2nd Army Group Royal Artillery
10th Indian Infantry Division (Major-General Denys Whitehorn Reid) (until October 1944)
10th Indian Infantry Brigade
20th Indian Infantry Brigade
25th Indian Infantry Brigade
British 9th Armoured Brigade
Jewish Brigade (from March 1945)
Italian Combat Group "Friuli" (from 1945)
British XIII Corps (transferred from U.S. Fifth Army January 1945) edit

see listing above under U.S. Fifth Army)

Canadian I Corps (until February 1945) edit
Lieutenant-General E. L. M. Burns (until 10 November 1944)
Lieutenant-General Charles Foulkes (from 10 November 1944)
First Canadian Army Group Royal Canadian Artillery
Canadian 1st Infantry Division (Major-General Chris Vokes until 1 December 1944 then Major-General H. W. Foster)
1st Canadian Infantry Brigade
2nd Canadian Infantry Brigade
3rd Canadian Infantry Brigade
Canadian 5th Armoured Division (Major-General Bert Hoffmeister)
5th Canadian Armoured Brigade
11th Canadian Infantry Brigade
12th Canadian Infantry Brigade
British 7th Armoured Brigade
British 21st Tank Brigade
British 4th Infantry Division (Major-General Dudley Ward) (from September to October 1944)
2nd New Zealand Division (Lieutenant-General Sir Bernard Freyberg. Major-General C. E. Weir acting commander 3 September to 17 October 1944) (September to October 1944)
3rd Greek Mountain Brigade (Colonel Thrasyvoulos Tsakalotos) (from September to October 1944)
Polish II Corps edit
Lieutenant-General Władysław Anders
Army Group Polish Artillery
Polish 3rd Carpathian Rifle Division (Major-General Bolesław Bronisław Duch)
1st Carpathian Rifle Brigade
2nd Carpathian Rifle Brigade
Polish 5th Kresowa Infantry Division (Major-General Nikodem Sulik)
5th Wilenska Infantry Brigade
6th Lwowska Infantry Brigade
Polish 2nd Armoured Brigade (Brigadier-General Bronislaw Rakowski)
Other Units edit
British 2nd Commando Brigade (Brigadier Ronnie Tod) (1945)
British 2nd Parachute Brigade (Brigadier Charles Pritchard) (to December 1944)

German Army Group C edit

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)

Tenth Army edit

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)

LXXVI Panzer Corps edit

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)
1st Parachute Division (Lieutenant-General Richard Heidrich until 18 November 1944 then Brigadier Karl-Lothar Schulz)
5th Mountain Division (Major-General Max-Günther Schrank to 18 January 1945, then Brigadier-General Hans Steets)
71st Infantry Division (Major-General Wilhelm Raapke) (until December 1944)
162nd Infantry Division (Major-General Ralph von Heygendorff)
278th Infantry Division (Major-General Harry Hoppe)

LI Mountain Corps edit

Lieutenant-General Valentin Feurstein until March 1945 and then Lieutenant-General Friedrich-Wilhelm Hauck
44th Reichsgrenadier Division Hoch und Deutschmeister (Major-General Hans-Günther von Rost) (until November 1944)
114th Jäger Division (Brigadier-General Hans-Joachim Ehlert to 15 April 1945 then Brigadier-General Martin Strahammer)
232nd Infantry Division (Lieutenant-General Eccard Freiherr von Gablenz)
305th Infantry Division (Lieutenant-General Friedrich-Wilhelm Hauck until Dec 1944 then Brigadier-General Friedrich von Schellwitz)
334th Infantry Division (Major-General Hellmuth Böhlke)
715th Infantry Division (Brigadier-General Hanns von Rohr) (until January 1945)
Italian 1st "Italia" Bersaglieri Division (Major-General Mario Carloni)

Fourteenth Army edit

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)

I Parachute Corps edit

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)
4th Parachute Division (Major-General Heinrich Trettner)
356th Infantry Division (Major-General Karl Faulenbach to October 1944)
362nd Infantry Division (Major-General Heinz Greiner)

XIV Panzer Corps edit

Lieutenant-General Frido von Senger und Etterlin
26th Panzer Division (Major-General Eduard Crasemann to 29 January 1945 then Brigadier-General Alfred Kuhnert to 19 April 1945 then Major-General Viktor Linnarz)
65th Infantry Division (Major-General Hellmuth Pfeifer)
16th SS Panzergrenadier Division Reichsführer-SS (SS-Gruppenführer Max Simon until 24 October 1944 then SS-Brigadeführer Otto Baum)

Army Group Liguria edit

Commander: General Rodolfo Graziani
42nd Jäger Division (Major-General Walter Jost)
34th Infantry Division (Major-General Theobald Lieb)
Italian 3rd "San Marco" Marine Division (Major-General Amilcare Farina)
Italian 4th "Monterosa" Mountain Division (Colonel Giorgio Milazzo)

Army Reserve edit

29th Panzergrenadier Division (Major-General Fritz Polack)
20th Luftwaffe Field Division re-designated 20th Luftwaffe Sturm Division in June 1944 (Brigadier-General Wilhelm Crisolli until 1 June 1944 then Brigadier-General Erich Fronhöfer)

Independent Units edit

LXXV Corps (Italian–French border) edit

Lieutenant-General Hans Schlemmer
148th Reserve Division (Major-General Otto Schönherr) (to August 1944)
90th Panzergrenadier Division (Major-General Ernst-Günther Baade to 9 December 1944 then Lieutenant-General Gerhard von Schwerin to 26 December 1944 then Brigadier-General Heinrich Baron von Behr)
157th Mountain Division re-designated 8th Mountain Division in February 1945 (Major-General Paul Schricker)

Adriatic Coast Command edit

94th Infantry Division (Major-General Bernhard Steinmetz)
188th Mountain Division (Major-General Hans von Hößlin)

Notes edit

  1. ^ a b Jackson (1988), p. 196.
  2. ^ Jackson (1987), p. 225.

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