Operation Grapeshot order of battle

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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
  • Corps Troops
    • Combat Group "Legnano" (Italian Co-Belligerent Army)
      • 68th Infantry Regiment "Legnano"
      • 69th Infantry Regiment "Legnano"
    • 752nd Tank Battalion
    • 757th Tank Battalion
    • 804th Tank Destroyer Battalion
    • 805th Tank Destroyer Battalion
  • 34th Infantry Division (Commanding: Major General Charles Bolté; Deputy: BG )
    • 133rd Regimental Combat Team
    • 135th Regimental Combat Team
    • 168th Regimental Combat Team
  • 88th Infantry Division (Commanding: Major General Paul W. Kendall; Deputy: BG James C. Fry)
    • 349th Regimental Combat Team
    • 350th Regimental Combat Team
    • 351st Regimental Combat Team
  • 91st Infantry Division (Commanding: Major General ; Deputy: BG Raymond E. S. Williamson)
    • 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
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)
  • 1st Armored Division (Major General Vernon Prichard)
    • 6th Armored Infantry Battalion
    • 11th Armored Infantry Battalion
    • 14th Armored Infantry Battalion
    • 1st Tank Battalion
    • 4th Tank Battalion
    • 13th Tank Battalion
  • 10th Mountain Division (Major General George Price Hays)
  • Brazilian Expeditionary Force (FEB) (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
V Corps[]
Lieutenant-General Charles Keightley
X Corps[]
Lieutenant-General John Hawkesworth
  • Jewish Brigade (from March 1945)
    • Palestine Regiment
  • Combat Group "Friuli" (Italian Co-Belligerent Army) Generale di Brigata Arturo Scattini
    • 87th Infantry Regiment "Friuli"
    • 88th Infantry Regiment "Friuli"
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 watching the coast between the Po and Venice.

LXXXXVII Corps (transferred to Army Group E in Yugoslavia on 10 April)[]

General of the Mountain Troops Ludwig Kübler

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 Rodolfo Graziani

Corps Lombardia[]

Lieutenant-General Kurt Jahn

LXXV Corps[]

Lieutenant-General Hans Schlemmer

Army Group Reserve[]

Notes[]

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

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