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.

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

Fifth United States Army

Commander:

Lieutenant General Lucian K. Truscott
Army Troops
  • 85th Infantry Division (Major General John B. Coulter)
    • 337th Regimental Combat Team
    • 338th Regimental Combat Team
    • 339th Regimental Combat Team
  • 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)
II Corps
Major General Geoffrey Keyes
IV Corps
Lieutenant General Willis D. Crittenberger

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
V Corps
Lieutenant-General Charles Keightley
X Corps
Lieutenant-General John Hawkesworth
XIII Corps
Lieutenant-General Sir John Harding
Polish II Corps
Major-General Zygmunt Bohusz-Szyszko (acting commander)
Army Reserve

Army Group C

Commander:

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

Tenth Army

Commander:

Lieutenant-General Traugott Herr

LXXVI Panzer Corps

Lieutenant-General Graff Gerhard von Schwerin (to 25 April 1945)
Major-General Karl von Graffen (from 25 April 1945)

I Parachute Corps

Lieutenant-General Richard Heidrich

LXXIII Corps

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

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

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

Army Reserve

Fourteenth Army

Commander:
Lieutenant-General Joachim Lemelsen

XIV Panzer Corps

Lieutenant-General Frido von Senger und Etterlin

LI Mountain Corps

Lieutenant-General Valentin Feurstein until March 1945 and then Lieutenant-General Friedrich-Wilhelm Hauck

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)

LXXV Corps

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

Army Group Reserve

Notes

  1. ↑ Jackson (1988), p. 196.

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