Operation Diadem order of battle

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Italian Campaign

Operation Diadem order of battle is a listing of the significant formations that were involved in the fighting on the Winter Line and at the Anzio bridgehead south of Rome during Operation Diadem in May - June 1944 which resulted in the Allied breakthrough at Cassino and the breakout at Anzio leading to the capture of Rome.

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[edit] Allied Armies in Italy

C-in-C: General Sir Harold Alexander

[edit] U.S. Fifth Army

Commander:

Lieutenant-General Mark Wayne Clark

[edit] U.S. VI Corps (at Anzio)

Major-General Lucian K. Truscott

[edit] U.S. II Corps (on the Winter Line)

Major-General Geoffrey Keyes

[edit] French Expeditionary Corps (on the Winter Line)

General Alphonse Juin

[edit] British 8th Army (on the Winter Line)

Commander:

Lieutenant-General Sir Oliver Leese

[edit] British XIII Corps

Lieutenant-General Sidney Kirkman

[edit] Canadian I Corps

Lieutenant-General E. L. M. Burns

[edit] Polish II Corps

Lieutenant-General Władysław Anders

[edit] British X Corps

Lieutenant-General Sir Richard McCreery

[edit] V Corps (On the Adriatic front in a holding role)

Lieutenant-General Charles Allfrey

[edit] Army Reserve

[edit] German Army Group C

Commander:

Field Marshal Albert Kesselring

[edit] Army Group Reserve

[edit] German Fourteenth Army (at Anzio)

Commander: Lieutenant-General Eberhard von Mackensen (until end May 1944, then under direct command of Kesselring)

[edit] German I Parachute Corps

Lieutenant-General Alfred Schlemm

[edit] German LXXVI Panzer Corps

Lieutenant-General Traugott Herr
  • German 362nd Infantry Division (Major-General Heinrich Greiner)
  • German 715th Infantry Division (Major-General Hans-Georg Hildebrandt)

[edit] German Tenth Army (on the Winter Line)

Commander: General Heinrich von Vietinghoff

[edit] XIV Panzer Corps

Lieutenant-General Frido von Senger und Etterlin

[edit] LI Mountain Corps

Lieutenant-General Valentin Feurstein

[edit] Gruppe Hauck (on Adriatic front in holding role)

Lieutenant-General Friedrich-Wilhelm Hauck

[edit] Reserves

[edit] Sources



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