# 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 Theatre Field Marshal Sir Harold Alexander
    Deputy: Lieutenant General Joseph T. McNarney
    Chief of Staff: Lieutenant-General William Morgan
    Air Commander-in Chief Mediterranean Allied Air Forces: Lieutenant General John K. Cannon

### Allied 15th Army Group

General Mark Wayne Clark
    Chief of Staff: Major General Alfred M. Gruenther

#### US Fifth Army

Lieutenant General Lucian K. Truscott
    Army troops
       85th Infantry "Custer" Division
       Major General John B. Coulter
          Infantry: 337th, 338th, 339th Infantry Regiments
          Artillery–105mm: 328th, 329th, 910th Field Artillery Battalions
          Artillery–155mm: 403rd Field Artillery Battalion
       92nd Infantry "Buffalo Soldiers" Division (Colored)
       Major General Edward M. Almond
          Infantry: 370th (Colored), 442nd (Nisei), 473rd Infantry Regiments
          Artillery–105mm: 597th, 598th, 599th, 600th Field Artillery Battalions (all Colored)
          Armor–Tank: 758th Light Tank Battalion, 760th Tank Battalion (less two companies)
          Armor–TD: 679th, 894th Tank Destroyer Battalion (less two companies)
Corps deployed west to east:

#### British Eighth Army

Lieutenant-General Sir Richard McCreery
    Army troops
       7th Hussars (amphibious tanks)
       12th Lancers (armoured cars)
       16th Army Group Royal Engineers
       20th Army Group Royal Engineers
       22nd Army Group Royal Engineers
       166th (Newfoundland) Field Artillery Regiment

##### Army Reserve

    6th Armoured Division
    Major-General Horatius Murray
       26th Armoured Brigade
       1st Guards Brigade
       61st Infantry Brigade
    25th Armoured Engineer Brigade (less detachments with assault divisions)
    2nd Parachute Brigade

## Army Group C
### Army Group C

Generaloberst Heinrich von Vietinghoff (to 29 April) General der Infanterie Friedrich Schulz (from 29 April to 2 May) Generaloberst Heinrich von Vietinghoff (from 2 May)

#### West: Army Group Liguria

Maresciallo Rodolfo Graziani
    Lombardia Corps
    Lieutenant-General Kurt Jahn
       3rd Marine Infantry Division "San Marco" (Major-General Amilcare Farina)
       Battle Group Meinhold
          Fortress Brigade 135
          Elements of the 4th Alpine Division "Monterosa"
    LXXV Corps
    General der Gebirgstruppe Hans Schlemmer
       2nd Grenadier Division "Littorio" (Major-General Tito Agosti)
       4th Alpine Division "Monterosa" (bulk of) (Colonel Giorgio Milazzo)
       5th Mountain Division (Generalmajor Hans Steets)
       34th Infantry Division (Generalleutnant Theobald Lieb)

#### Center: Fourteenth Army

Generalleutnant Joachim Lemelsen
    XIV Panzer Corps
    Generalleutnant Frido von Senger und Etterlin
       8th Mountain Division (Major-General Paul Schricker)
       65th Infantry Division (Major-General Hellmuth Pfeifer)
       94th Infantry Division (Major-General Bernhard Steinmetz)
    LI Mountain Corps
    Generalleutnant Valentin Feurstein until March 1945 and then Lieutenant-General Friedrich-Wilhelm Hauck
       1st Bersaglieri Division "Italia" (Major-General Mario Carloni)
       114th Jäger Division (Brigadier-General Hans-Joachim Ehlert to 15 April 1945 then Brigadier-General Martin Strahammer)
       148th Reserve Division (Major-General Otto Fretter-Pico)
       232nd Infantry Division (Major-General Eccard Freiherr von Gablenz)
       334th Infantry Division (Major-General Hellmuth Böhlke)

#### East: Tenth Army

Generalleutnant Traugott Herr
    LXXVI Panzer Corps
    Lieutenant-General Gerhard Graf von Schwerin (to 25 April 1945)
    Major-General Karl von Graffen (from 25 April 1945)
       42nd Jäger Division (Major-General Walter Jost)
       98th Infantry Division (Major-General Alfred-Hermann Reinhardt to 11 April 1945 then Brigadier-General Otto Schiel)
       162nd Turkoman Division (Major-General Ralph von Heygendorff)
       362nd Infantry Division (Brigadier-General Alois Weber)
    I Parachute Corps
    Lieutenant-General Richard Heidrich
       1st Parachute Division (Brigadier-General Karl-Lothar Schulz)
       4th Parachute Division (Major-General Heinrich Trettner)
       26th Panzer Division (Brigadier-General Alfred Kuhnert to 19 April 1945 then Major-General Viktor Linnarz)
       278th Infantry Division (Major-General Harry Hoppe)
          Italian "Forlì" Assault Battalion (Captain Pier Vittorio Riccardi)
       305th Infantry Division (Major-General Friedrich von Schellwitz)
    LXXIII Corps
    Lieutenant-General Anton Dostler
       Minor units watching the coast between the Po and Venice
    LXXXXVII Corps (transferred to Army Group E in Yugoslavia on 10 April)
    General of the Mountain Troops Ludwig Kübler
       188th Mountain Division (Major-General Hans von Hößlin)
       237th Infantry Division (Major-General Hans von Grävenitz until late April then Colonel Karl Falkner)
    Army Reserve
       29th Panzergrenadier Division (Major-General Fritz Polack)
       155th Infantry Division (Brigadier-General Georg Zwade)

#### Army Group Reserve

       90th Panzergrenadier Division (Brigadier-General Heinrich Baron von Behr)