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 on the Gothic Line and in the Po valley.

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)

:Commander-in-Chief: General Sir Harold Alexander

: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 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) (from 18 - 23 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 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-Günther 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 Group 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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