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Part of Italian campaign

Spring 1945 offensive in Italy

April 6 – May 2, 1945 · Battle site

Result Allied victory

The final Allied offensive in Italy: the Eighth Army through the Argenta Gap and the Fifth Army past Bologna trapped the German armies south of the Po; they surrendered on 2 May.

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Axis

Allies

Germany
Italian Social Republic
United Kingdom
United States
British Raj
Dominion of Newfoundland
Mandatory Palestine
Poland
Italy
New Zealand
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Union of South Africa
Yugoslavia
Brazil
Benito Mussolini military commander Rodolfo Graziani military commander Heinrich von Vietinghoff military commander Joachim Lemelsen military commander Traugott Herr military commander
Harold Alexander military commander Mark W. Clark military commander Lucian Truscott military commander

Strength and losses

Strength
1,333,856
Casualties
16,258

Units

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

Battles 6

Before and after

Ended by
Surrender at Caserta April 29, 1945

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