The Spring 1945 offensive in Italy, codenamed Operation Grapeshot, was the final Allied attack during the Italian Campaign in the final stages of the Second World War.[1] The attack into the Lombard Plain by the Allied 15th Army Group started on 6 April 1945 and ended on 2 May with the surrender of German forces in Italy.
Main article: AFHQ |
Supreme Allied Commander, Mediterranean Theatre
Field Marshal Sir Harold Alexander
Main article: 15th Army Group |
General Mark Wayne Clark
Main article: Fifth United States Army |
Lieutenant General Lucian K. Truscott
Corps deployed west to east:
IV Corps[edit]Lieutenant General Willis D. Crittenberger
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II Corps[edit]Major General Geoffrey Keyes
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Main article: Eighth Army (United Kingdom) |
Lieutenant-General Sir Richard McCreery
Main article: Army Group C |
Generaloberst Heinrich von Vietinghoff (to 29 April)
General der Infanterie Friedrich Schulz (from 29 April to 2 May)
Generaloberst Heinrich von Vietinghoff (from 2 May)
Main article: Army Group Liguria |
Marshal Rodolfo Graziani
Main article: 14th Army (Wehrmacht) |
Generalleutnant Joachim Lemelsen
Main article: 10th Army (Wehrmacht) |
Generalleutnant Traugott Herr