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Allied Forces
editTheatre and army commanders
Sir Harold Alexander
Mark W. Clark
Allied Armies in Italy
General Sir Harold Alexander
Naval forces
- Allied Naval Forces, Mediterranean (Admiral Andrew Cunningham)
Air forces
- Mediterranean Air Command (Allied) (Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder)[a]
US Fifth Army
editLieutenant General Mark W. Clark
US VI Corps
editUS VI Corps commanders
John P. Lucas
Lucian K. Truscott
Major General John P. Lucas thru 23 Feb, then
Major-General Lucian K. Truscott
Southern landing beaches
US 3rd Infantry ("Rock of the Marne") Division- Major General Lucian K. Truscott (thru 23 Feb)
- Major General John W. O'Daniel (thru 25 May)
- Infantry
- Artillery
- 9th Field Artillery Battalion (155mm)
- 10th Field Artillery Battalion (105mm)
- 39th Field Artillery Battalion (105mm)
- 41st Field Artillery Battalion (105mm)
- Division-level troops
- Headquarters Company
- 3rd Reconnaissance Troop (Mech.)
- 3rd Signal Company
- 3rd Quartermaster Company
- 3rd Medical Battalion
- 10th Engineer Combat Battalion
- 703rd Ordnance Light Maintenance Company
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US 45th Infantry ("Thunderbird") Division- Major General William W. Eagles
- Infantry
- Artillery
- 158th Field Artillery Battalion (105mm)
- 160th Field Artillery Battalion (105mm)
- 171st Field Artillery Battalion (105mm)
- 189th Field Artillery Battalion (155mm)
- Division-level troops
- Headquarters Company
- 45th Reconnaissance Troop (Mech.)
- 45th Signal Company
- 45th Quartermaster Company
- 120th Medical Battalion
- 120th Engineer Combat Battalion
- 700th Ordnance Light Maintenance Company
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US 1st Armored ("Old Ironsides") Division- Major General Ernest N. Harmon
- Armor
- 1st Tank Battalion
- 4th Tank Battalion
- 13th Tank Battalion
- Armored infantry
- 6th Armored Infantry Battalion
- 11th Armored Infantry Battalion
- 14th Armored Infantry Battalion
- Artillery
- 27th Armored Field Artillery Battalion
- 68th Armored Field Artillery Battalion
- 91st Armored Field Artillery Battalion
- Division-level troops
- Headquarters Company
- 81st Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron
- 141st Armored Signal Company
- 47th Medical Battalion, Armored
- 16th Armored Engineer Battalion
- 123rd Armored Ordnance Maintenance Battalion
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From Mar 1944
US 34th Infantry ("Red Bull") Division- Major General Charles W. Ryder[b]
- Infantry
- Artillery
- 125th Field Artillery Battalion (105mm)
- 151st Field Artillery Battalion (105mm)
- 175th Field Artillery Battalion (105mm)
- 185th Field Artillery Battalion (155mm)
- Division-level troops
- Headquarters Company
- 34th Reconnaissance Troop (Mech.)
- 34th Signal Company
- 34th Quartermaster Company
- 109th Medical Battalion
- 109th Engineer Combat Battalion
- 734th Ordnance Light Maintenance Company
From Apr 1944
US 36th Infantry ("Arrowhead") Division- Major General Fred L. Walker
- Infantry
- Artillery
- 131st Field Artillery Battalion (105mm)
- 132nd Field Artillery Battalion (105mm)
- 133rd Field Artillery Battalion (105mm)
- 155th Field Artillery Battalion (155mm)
- Division-level troops
- Headquarters Company
- 36th Reconnaissance Troop (Mech.)
- 36th Signal Company
- 36th Quartermaster Company
- 111th Medical Battalion
- 111th Engineer Combat Battalion
- 736th Ordnance Light Maintenance Company
British X Corps
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Lieutenant-General Richard L. McCreery
- British 5th Infantry Division (Major-General Philip Gregson-Ellis) (from March 1944)
- British 56th Infantry Division (Major-General Gerald Templer) (from mid- February 1944 until mid-March 1944)
- US-Canadian First Special Service Force (from early February, replacing the Ranger battalions)[c]
- 6615th Ranger Force
- 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment
- British 2nd Special Service Brigade
Axis forces and organization
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Army Group C
editGeneralfeldmarschall Albert Kesselring[d]
German Fourteenth Army
editGeneral Eberhard von Mackensen[e] (until end May 1944, then under direct command of Kesselring)
- I Parachute Corps
- General Alfred Schlemm
- 4th Parachute Division (Major-General Heinrich Trettner)
- Nembo Independent Paratroopers Battalion[f] (Captain Corradino Alvino)
- Arditi Paratroopers Regiment "Folgore" (Lieutenant-Colonel Edvino Dalmas)
- 29th Panzergrenadier Division (Lieutenant-General Walter Fries)
- 65th Infantry Division (Major-General Hellmuth Pfeifer)
- 715th Infantry Division (Major-General Hans-Georg Hildebrandt)
- 114th Jäger Division (Lieutenant-General Karl Eglseer)
- German LXXVI Panzer Corps
- General Traugott Herr
- 3rd Panzergrenadier Division (Lieutenant-General Fritz-Hubert Gräser)
- 26th Panzer Division (Lieutenant-General Smilo Freiherr von Lüttwitz)
- Hermann Göring Panzer Division (Major-General Paul Conrath)
- 362nd Infantry Division (Major-General Heinz Greiner)
- 71st Infantry Division (Lieutenant-General Wilhelm Raapke)
- Decima Flottiglia MAS
- Captain Junio Valerio Borghese
- Barbarigo Battalion (Captain Umberto Bardelli)[g]
Notes
edit- ^ Headquarters at Algiers, Algeria[1]
- ^ Promoted to command of IX Corps Sep 1944
- ^ Designated three regiments on paper, the Force actually totalled about 2,000 men at full strength.
- ^ Served seven years for war crimes
- ^ Relieved by Kesselring for disobeying orders; served five years for war crimes
- ^ Autonomous unit of the RSI, but operationally depended on the 4th Parachute Division.
- ^ Autonomous unit of the RSI as it is part of the Decima Flottiglia MAS. But operationally dependent on 715th Infantry Division.
- ^ Secret Document 161, Location of units in the Royal Air Force, 34th issue, July 1943, Royal Air Force Museum accession number PR02859.