Operation Diadem order of battle

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Template:Campaignbox Italy Operation Diadem order of battle is a listing of the significant formations that were involved in the fighting on the Winter Line and at the Anzio bridgehead south of Rome during Operation Diadem in May - June 1944 which resulted in the Allied breakthrough at Cassino and the breakout at Anzio leading to the capture of Rome.

Allied Armies in Italy[edit]

C-in-C: General Sir Harold Alexander
Chief of Staff: Lieutenant-General Sir John Harding

U.S. Fifth Army[edit]

Commander:

Lieutenant General Mark W. Clark

U.S. VI Corps (At Anzio)[edit]

Major General Lucian K. Truscott

U.S. II Corps (on the Winter Line)[edit]

Major-General Geoffrey Keyes

Corps Expéditionnaire Français (French Expeditionary Corps) (on the Winter Line)[edit]

Général d'armée (General) Alphonse Juin
  • 3ème Division d'Infanterie Algérienne (3rd Algerian Infantry Division) (Général de division (Major-General) Joseph de Goislard de Monsabert)
  • 4ème Division Marocaine de Montagne (4th Moroccan Mountain Division) (Général de division (Major-General) François Sevez)
  • 2ème Division d'Infanterie Marocaine (2nd Moroccan Infantry Division) (Général de division(Major-General) André W. Dody)
  • 1ère Division Française Libre/1ère Division Motorisée d'Infanterie (1st Motorised Infantry Division) (Général de division (Major-General) Diego Brosset)
  • Commandement des Goums Marocains (Command of Moroccan Goumiers - Three Groups of Tabors each comprising three tabors of 500 to 800 men) (Général de brigade (Brigadier-General) Augustin Guillaume)
  • Corps Troops
    • 7ème et 8ème Régiments de Chasseurs d'Afrique (7th and 8th African Light Cavalry Regiment) (M10 tank destroyers)
    • Régiment d'Artillerie Coloniale du Levant (Levant Colonial Artillery Regiment)
    • 64ème Régiment d'Artillerie d'Afrique (64th African Artillery Regiment)
    • Groupe de canonniers-marins (Navy Artillery Battalion - two batteries)

Army Reserve[edit]

British Eighth Army (on the Winter Line)[edit]

Commander:

Lieutenant-General Sir Oliver Leese

British XIII Corps[edit]

Lieutenant-General Sidney C. Kirkman

I Canadian Corps[edit]

Lieutenant-General E. L. M. Burns

Polish II Corps[edit]

Lieutenant-General Władysław Anders

British X Corps[edit]

Lieutenant-General Sir Richard L. McCreery

Army Reserve[edit]

British V Corps (On the Adriatic front in a holding role directly under A.A.I.)[edit]

Lieutenant-General Charles Allfrey

German Army Group C[edit]

Commander:

Field Marshal Albert Kesselring

Army Group Reserve[edit]

Fourteenth Army (at Anzio)[edit]

Commander: Lieutenant-General Eberhard von Mackensen (until end May 1944, then under direct command of Kesselring)

I Parachute Corps[edit]

Lieutenant-General Alfred Schlemm

LXXVI Panzer Corps[edit]

Lieutenant-General Traugott Herr

Tenth Army (on the Winter Line)[edit]

Commander: General Heinrich von Vietinghoff

XIV Panzer Corps[edit]

Lieutenant-General Frido von Senger und Etterlin (on leave 17 April to 17 May during which time Lieutenant-General Otto Hartmann[4])

LI Mountain Corps[edit]

Lieutenant-General Valentin Feurstein

Korpsgruppe Hauck (on Adriatic front in holding role)[edit]

Major-General Friedrich-Wilhelm Hauck

Armeegruppe von Zangen (in northern Italy)[edit]

Commander: Lieutenant-General Gustav von Zangen

LXXV Army Corps[edit]

Lieutenant-General Anton Dostler

Corps Witthöft (Eastern sub-Alpine region)[edit]

Lieutenant-General Joachim Witthöft

Corps Kübler (Adriatic coastal region)[edit]

Lieutenant-General Ludwig Kübler
  • 278th Infantry Division (most of) (Major-General Harry Hoppe)

References[edit]

  1. ↑ Molony, pp. 14, 247 & 248
  2. ↑ Molony, p. 70.
  3. ↑ Molony, p. 69.
  4. ↑ Molony, pp. 51 & 150.

Sources[edit]

  • Carver, Field Marshal Lord (2001). The Imperial War Museum Book of the War in Italy 1943-1945. London: Sidgwick & Jackson. ISBN 0-330-48230-0.
  • Clark, LLoyd (2006). Anzio: The Friction of War. Italy and the Battle for Rome 1944. Headline Publishing Group, London. ISBN 978-0-7553-1420-1.
  • Houterman, Hans; Koppes, Jeroen. "World War II unit histories and officers". Archived from the original on 3 December 2008. Retrieved 6 August 2007.
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  • Molony, Brigadier C.J.C.; with Flynn, Captain F.C. (R.N.); Davies, Major-General H.L. & Gleave, Group Captain T.P. (2004) [1st. pub. HMSO:1984]. Butler, Sir James (ed.). The Mediterranean and Middle East, Volume VI: Victory in the Mediterranean, Part 1 - 1st April to 4th June 1944. History of the Second World War, United Kingdom Military Series. Revised by Jackson, General Sir William. Uckfield, UK: Naval & Military Press. pp. 14–15. ISBN 1-84574-070-X.
  • "Orders of Battle.com". Archived from the original on 17 July 2007. Retrieved 6 August 2007.
  • Wendell, Marcus. "Axis History Factbook: German army order of battle". Archived from the original on 29 October 2006. Retrieved 6 August 2007.


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