Operation Grapeshot order of battle
The Spring 1945 offensive in Italy, codenamed Operation Grapeshot, was the final Allied attack during the Italian Campaign in the final stages of the Second World War. The attack into the Lombard Plain by the Allied 15th Army Group started on 6 April 1945 and ended on 2 May with the surrender of Axis forces in Italy.
Allied Forces Headquarters Mediterranean
Supreme Allied Commander, Mediterranean TheatreField Marshal Sir Harold Alexander
Allied 15th Army Group
General '''Mark Wayne Clark'''US Fifth Army
Lieutenant General Lucian K. Truscott''Corps deployed west to east:''
IV Corps
Lieutenant General '''Willis D. Crittenberger'''II Corps
Major General '''Geoffrey Keyes'''British Eighth Army
Lieutenant-General '''Sir Richard McCreery'''V Corps
Lieutenant-General '''Charles Keightley'''X Corps
Lieutenant-General '''John Hawkesworth'''XIII Corps
Lieutenant-General '''Sir John Harding'''Polish II Corps
Major-General '''Zygmunt Bohusz-Szyszko'''Army Reserve
Army Group C
Army Group C
Generaloberst Heinrich von VietinghoffGeneral der Infanterie Friedrich Schulz
Generaloberst Heinrich von Vietinghoff