15th Army Group
Army group · United Kingdom · July 10, 1943 – July 29, 1945 · 1,200,000 strong
The Allied army group in Sicily and Italy, under Harold Alexander and from December 1944 Mark Clark, that commanded the US Fifth and British Eighth Armies.
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Attached units 3
- July 10, 1943 – May 2, 1945 Eighth Army (United Kingdom)
- July 10, 1943 – August 17, 1943 Seventh United States Army
- September 9, 1943 – May 2, 1945 US Fifth Army
People who served 2
Strength and losses
- Nominal Strength: 1,200,000
Movements
- July 28, 1914 – November 11, 1918 World War I
- September 1, 1939 – September 2, 1945 World War II
- June 10, 1940 – May 16, 1943 North African campaign
- June 11, 1940 – February 4, 1943 Western Desert campaign
- May 26 – June 21, 1942 Battle of Gazala
- October 23 – November 11, 1942 Second Battle of El Alamein
- November 17, 1942 – May 13, 1943 Tunisian campaign
- December 11–18, 1942 Battle of El Agheila
- January 22–23, 1943 Battle of Tripoli (1943)
- March 16–31, 1943 Battle of the Mareth Line
- July 10, 1943 Allied invasion of Sicily Sicily Map
- September 3–16, 1943 Allied invasion of Italy
- September 15, 1943 Salerno and Calabria Map
- January 17, 1944 Battle of Monte Cassino Caserta Map
- January 22 – June 4, 1944 Battle of Anzio
- May 11–23, 1944 Operation Diadem
- June 5, 1944 Rome Map
- August 15 – September 14, 1944 Operation Dragoon
- August 25, 1944 – March 7, 1945 Allied advance from Paris to the Rhine
- September 1, 1944 Operation Olive Siena Map
- December 16, 1944 – January 25, 1945 Battle of the Bulge
- December 31, 1944 – January 25, 1945 Operation Northwind (1944)
- February 8 – March 27, 1945 Rhineland Offensive
- March 22 – May 8, 1945 Western Allied invasion of Germany
- April 9, 1945 Spring 1945 offensive in Italy Florence Map
- April 9–21, 1945 Battle of Bologna
- May 2, 1945 – July 29, 1945 German surrender in Italy Map