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Allied Invasion of Italy Order of Battle is a listing of the significant Allied and Axis formations that were involved during the Allied Invasion of Italy (the landings at Salerno, Reggio and Taranto) 3 September – 16 September 1943.

Allied Forces[]

Allied 15th Army Group[]

Under the command of General Sir Harold Alexander.

Under direct Army Group command (Operation Slapstick at Taranto)[]

U.S. 5th Army (Operation Avalanche at Salerno)[]

Commanded by Lieutenant General Mark Clark.

Army troops[]
U.S. VI Corps[]

Commanded by Major General Ernest J. Dawley

British X Corps[]

Commanded by Lieutenant-General Richard McCreery.

Army Group Reserve available to 5th Army[]

British Eighth Army[]

Commanded by General Bernard Montgomery

British XIII Corps (Operation Baytown at Reggio di Calabria)[]

Commanded by Lieutenant-General Miles Dempsey

  • Corps artillery
    • 6th Army Group, R.A.
    • 2nd Anti-Aircraft Brigade
  • Corps troops
    • 1st Special Reconnaissance Squadron
    • 3rd Commando
    • 40th Royal Marine Commando
  • Also supporting XIII Corps

German Forces[]

Army Command South[]

Commanded by Field Marshal (Generalfeldmarschall) Albert Kesselring

German Tenth Army[]

Commanded by General (Generaloberst) Heinrich von Vietinghoff

XIV Panzer Corps[]

Commanded by Major-General (Generalleutnant) Hermann Balck (acting commander).

LXXVI Panzer Corps[]

Commanded by Lieutenant-General (General der Panzertruppe) Traugott Herr.

  • 1st Parachute Division
    Commanded by Major-General (Generalleutnant) Richard Heidrich
    • 1st Parachute Regiment - (less 3rd Battalion detached to Hermann Göring Division)[10]
    • 3rd Parachute Regiment - (detached to 26th Panzer Division[10] and then to 29th Panzer Grenadier Division[11])
    • 4th Parachute Regiment - (detached to 26th Panzer Division)[10]

Notes[]

Footnotes
Citations
  1. Secret Document 161, Location of units in the Royal Air Force, 34th issue, July 1943, Royal Air Force Museum accession number PR02859.
  2. Molony, pp. 242, 244 & 245.
  3. 3.0 3.1 Molony, p. 278n.
  4. Molony, p. 277n.
  5. Molony, p. 337n.
  6. Molony, p. 276n.
  7. 7.0 7.1 Molony, p. 234n.
  8. Molony, pp. 117 & 234.
  9. 9.0 9.1 Molony, p. 239.
  10. 10.0 10.1 10.2 Molony, p. 243n.
  11. Molony, p. 231n.

References[]

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