Gothic Line Order Of Battle

Gothic Line order of battle is a listing of the significant formations that were involved in the campaign in northern Italy , August 1944 – May 1945

ALLIED FORCES HEADQUARTERS MEDITERRANEAN

Supreme Allied Commander Mediterranean:
:General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson (until 12 December 1944 )
:Field Marshal Sir Harold Alexander (from 12 December 1944 )
Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Mediterranean:
:Lieutenant-General Jacob L. Devers (until September 1944)
:Lieutenant-General Joseph T. McNarney (from September 1944)
Chief of Staff
:Lieutenant-General Sir James Gammell (to 12 December 1944 )
:Lieutenant-General Sir John Harding (from 12 December 1944 to 24 March 1945 )
:Lieutenant-General John K. Cannon (from 24 March 1945 )

Allied Armies In Italy (until 12 December 1944 )

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:Chief of Staff: Lieutenant-General Sir John Harding

Allied 15th Army Group (from 12 December 1944 )

:Commander: Lieutenant-General Mark Wayne Clark

:Chief of Staff: Major-General Alfred M. Gruenther

U.S. Fifth Army

Commander:
:Lieutenant-General Mark Wayne Clark (until 16 December 1944 )
:Lieutenant-General Lucian K. Truscott (from 16 December 1944 )

= U.S. II Corps

:Major-General Geoffrey Keyes

U.S. 34th Infantry Division (Major-General Charles Bolté )

U.S. 88th Infantry Division (Major-General Paul W. Kendall )

U.S. 91st Infantry Division (Major-General William G. Livesay )

U.S. 85th Infantry Division (Major-General John B. Coulter ) (until April 1945)

Italian Legnano Combat Group (from 1945)

= U.S. IV Corps

:Major-General Willis D. Crittenberger

U.S. 1st Armored Division (Major-General Vernon E. Prichard )

6th South African Armoured Division (Major-General William Poole )

U.S. 85th Infantry Division (Major-General John B. Coulter ) (from April 1945)

1st Brazilian Division (General Mascarenhas De Morais ) (from November 1944)

U.S. 10th Mountain Division (Major-General George P. Hays ) (from February 1945)

= British XIII Corps (until January 1945)

see entry in 8th Army below

=Independent units under Army HQ

U.S. 92nd Infantry Division (Major-General Edward M. Almond ) (from November 1944)

British 8th Army

Commander:
:Lieutenant-General Sir Oliver Leese (until 1 October 1944)
:Lieutenant-General Sir Richard McCreery (from 1 October 1944)

= British V Corps

:Lieutenant-General Charles F. Keightley

British 1st Armoured Division (Major-General Richard Hull ) (until 25 September 1944)

British 4th Infantry Division (Major-General Dudley Ward ) (from October to November 1944)

Indian 4th Infantry Division (Major-General Alan Holworthy ) (until October 1944)

British 46th Infantry Division (Major-General John Hawkesworth until 6 November 1944, then Major-General C.E. Weir ) (until December 1944)

British 56th Infantry Division (Major-General J. Y. Whitfield )

British 78th Infantry Division (Major-General D.C. Butterworth until 10 October 1944 and then Major-General Keith Arbuthnott ) (from March 1945)

British 6th Armoured Division (Major-General H. Murray ) (until 18 April 1945)

Indian 8th Infantry Division (Major-General Dudley Russell ) (from March 1945)

Indian 10th Infantry Division (Major-General Denys Reid ) (from October 1944 to February 1945)

New Zealand 2nd Division (Lieutenant-General Sir Bernard Freyberg ) (November 1944 to 14 April 1945)

Jewish Brigade (from February to March 1945)

Italian Cremona Combat Group (from 1945)

Italian 28th Garibaldi Brigade (from 1945)

= British X Corps (until December 1944 and from February 1945)

:Lieutenant-General Sir Richard McCreery (until 6 November 1944 )
:Lieutenant-General John Hawkesworth (from 6 November 1944)

Indian 10th Infantry Division (Major-General Denys Reid ) (until October 1944)

Jewish Brigade (from March 1945)

Italian Fruili Combat Group (from 1945)

= British XIII Corps (from January 1945)

:Lieutenant-General Sidney Kirkman (until 25 January 1945 )
:Lieutenant-General Sir John Harding (from 25 January 1945 )

British 4th Infantry Division (Major-General Dudley Ward ) (to September 1944)

British 6th Armoured Division (Major-General Horatius Murray ) (from August 1944 to March 1945)

Indian 8th Infantry Division (Major-General Dudley Russell ) (until March 1945)

Indian 10th Infantry Division (Major-General Denys Reid ) (from February 1945)

British 1st Infantry Division (Major-General Charles Loewen ) (until January 1945)

British 78th Infantry Division (Major-General D.C. Butterworth until 10 October 1944 and then Major-General Keith Arbuthnott ) (from October 1944 to March 1945)

New Zealand 2nd Division (Lieutenant-General Sir Bernard Freyberg ) (from 14 April 1945 )

Italian Folgore Combat Group (from 1945)

= Canadian I Corps (until February 1945)

:Lieutenant-General E. L. M. Burns (until 10 November 1944 )
:Lieutenant-General C. Foulkes (from 10 November 1944 )

Canadian 1st Infantry Division (Major-General Chris Vokes until 1 December 1944 then Major-General H. W. Foster )

Canadian 5th Armoured Division (Major-General Bert Hoffmeister )

British 4th Infantry Division (Major-General Dudley Ward ) (from September to October 1944)

New Zealand 2nd Division (Lieutenant-General Sir Bernard Freyberg . Major-General C. E. Weir acting commander 3 September to 17 October 1944) (September to October 1944)

Greek 3rd Mountain Brigade (Colonel Thrasyvoulos Tsakalotos ) (from September to October 1944)

= Polish II Corps

:Lieutenant-General Władysław Anders

Polish 3rd Carpathian Rifle Division (Major-General Bolesław Bronisław Duch )

Polish 5th Kresowa Infantry Division (Major-General Nikodem Sulik )

Polish 2nd Armoured Brigade (Brigadier-General Bronislaw Rakowski )

=Other Units

2nd Commando Brigade (Brigadier Ronnie Tod ) (1945)

GERMAN ARMY GROUP C

Commander:
: Field Marshal Albert Kesselring (until 25 October 1944 , from January 1945 until 9 March 1945 )
:General Heinrich Von Vietinghoff (from from 25 October 1944 until January 1945 and from 9 March 1945 )

German Tenth Army

Commander:
:General Heinrich Von Vietinghoff (until 25 October 1944 )
:Lieutenant-General Joachim Lemelsen (from 25 October 1944 to 15 February 1945 )
:Lieutenant-General Traugott Herr (from 15 February 1945 )

German LXXVI Panzer Corps

:Lieutenant-General Traugott Herr (until 26 December 1944 )
:Lieutenant-General Graff Gerhard Von Schwerin (from 26 December 1944 to 25 April 1945 )
:Major-General Karl Von Graffen (from 25 April 1945 )

German 1st Parachute Division (Lieutenant-General Richard Heidrich until 18 November 1944 then Brigadier Karl-Lothar Schultz )

German 5th Mountain Division (Major-General Max Schrank to 18 January 1945 , then Brigadier-General Hans Steets )

German 71st Infantry Division (Major-General Wilhelm Raapke ) (until December 1944)

German 162nd Infantry Division (Major-General Ralph Von Heygendorff )

German 278th Infantry Division (Major-General Harry Hoppe )

German LI Mountain Corps

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

German 44th Reichsgrenadier Division Hoch Und Deutschchmeister (Major-General Hans-Günther Von Rost ) (until November 1944)

German 114th Jäger Division (Brigadier-General Hans-Joachim Ehlert to 15 April 1945 then Brigadier-General Martin Strahammer )

German 305th Infantry Division (Lieutenant-General Friedrich-Wilhelm Hauck until Dec 1944 then Brigadier-General Friedrich Von Schellwitz )

German 334th Infantry Division (Major-General Hellmuth Böhlke )

German 715th Infantry Division (Brigadier-General Hanns Von Rohr ) (until January 1945)

German Fourteenth Army

:Commander:
:Lieutenant-General Joachim Lemelsen (to 24 October 1944 and from 17 February 1945 )
:Lieutenant-General Frido Von Senger Und Etterlin (October 1944)
:Lieutenant-General Heinz Ziegler ( 24 October to 22 November 1944 )
:Lieutenant-General Traugott Herr ( 22 November to 12 December 1944 )
:Lieutenant-General Kurt Von Tippelskirch (from 12 December 1944 to 16 February 1945 )

German I Parachute Corps

:Lieutenant-General Alfred Schlemm (to 30 September 1944 )
:Lieutenant-General Richard Heidrich (from 1 November 1944 to 23 January 1945 )
:Major-General Hellmuth Böhlke (from 23 January 1945 to 7 February 1945 )
:Lieutenant-General Richard Heidrich (from 7 February 1945 )

German 4th Parachute Division (Major-General Heinrich Trettner )

German 356th Infantry Division (Major-General Karl Faulenbach to October 1944)

German 362nd Infantry Division (Major-General Heinz Greiner )

German XIV Panzer Corps

:Lieutenant-General Frido Von Senger Und Etterlin

German 26th Panzer Division (Major-General Eduard Crasemann to 29 January 1945 then Brigadier-General Alfred Kuhnert to 19 April 1945 then Major-General Viktor Linnarz )

German 65th Infantry Division (Major-General Helmuth Pfeiffer )

16th SS Panzergrenadier Division Reichsführer-SS (SS-Gruppenführer Max Simon until 24 October 1944 then SS-Brigadeführer Otto Baum )

Army Liguria

:Commander: General Alfredo Guzzoni

German 42nd Jäger Division (Major-General Walter Jost )

German 34th Infantry Division (Major-General Theobald Lieb )

Italian Monterosa Mountain Division

Italian San Marco Infantry Division

Army Reserve

German 29th Panzergrenadier Division (Major-General Fritz Polack)

German 20th Luftwaffe Field Division re-designated German 20th Luftwaffe Stürm Division in June 1944 (Brigadier-General Wilhelm Crisolli until 1 June 1944 then Brigadier-General Erich Fronhöfer )

Independent Units

German LXXV Corps (Italian-French border)

:Lieutenant-General Hans Schlemmer

German 148th Reserve Division (Major-General Otto Schönherr ) (to August 1944)

German 90th Panzergrenadier Division (Major-General Ernst-Günther Baade to 9 December 1944 then Lieutenant-General Gerhard Von Schwerin to 26 December 1944 then Brigadier-General Heinrich Baron Von Behr )

German 157th Mountain Division re-designated German 8th Mountain Division in February 1945 (Major-General Paul Schricker )

Adriatic Coast Command

German 94th Infantry Division (Major-General Bernhard Steinmetz)

German 188th Mountain Division (Major-General Hans Von Hößlin )

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