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Part of Italian campaign

Operation Olive

August 25 – December 31, 1944 · Battle site

Result Inconclusive

The Allied offensive against the Gothic Line in northern Italy: the Eighth Army broke through on the Adriatic to Rimini and the Fifth Army crossed the Apennines toward Bologna, but the autumn rains stopped both short of the Po valley.

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Axis

Allies

Germany
Italian Social Republic
United States
United Kingdom
Poland
British Raj
Italy
New Zealand
Union of South Africa
Brazil
Albert Kesselring military commander Rodolfo Graziani military commander Heinrich von Vietinghoff military commander Joachim Lemelsen military commander
Harold Alexander military commander Mark W. Clark military commander Lucian Truscott military commander Oliver Leese military commander

Units

Army Group C 10th Army (Wehrmacht) 14th Army (Wehrmacht) Army Liguria 148th Reserve Division 1st Bersaglieri Division "Italia" 278th Infantry Division 29th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Italian) 2nd Grenadier Division "Littorio" 356th Infantry Division 3rd Marine Infantry Division "San Marco" 4th Alpine Division "Monterosa" 65th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht) 715th Infantry Division
15th Army Group Eighth Army (United Kingdom) Polish II Corps US Fifth Army Brazilian Expeditionary Force II Corps (United States) IV Corps (United States) V Corps (United Kingdom) 1st Armored Division (United States) 34th Infantry Division (United States) 3rd Carpathian Rifle Division 4th Infantry Division (United Kingdom) 5th Kresowa Infantry Division 85th Support Command 88th Readiness Division 91st Training Division 92nd Infantry Division (United States) 1st Cavalry Regiment (United States) 1st Flintshire Rifle Volunteers 442nd Infantry Regiment

Battles 3