US Fifth Army
Army · United States · October 15, 1921 – July 15, 2026 · inactive July 16, 1933 – December 1, 1942 · inactive October 2, 1945 – June 11, 1946
American army under Mark Clark, later Lucian Truscott, that landed at Salerno and fought the length of Italy, taking Naples, Rome and the Po valley.
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Served with
- September 9, 1943 – May 2, 1945 15th Army Group
Attached units 1
- August 20, 1943 – July 31, 1944 VI Corps (United States)
People who served 1
Movements
- July 28, 1914 – November 11, 1918 World War I
- July 9, 1943 – May 2, 1945 Italian campaign
- September 9, 1943 Allied invasion of Italy Lands at Salerno Map
- October 1, 1943 Naples taken Map
- October 13, 1943 Crosses the Volturno Map
- January 17, 1944 Battle of Monte Cassino Gustav Line at Cassino Map
- January 22 – June 4, 1944 Battle of Anzio
- June 4, 1944 Rome taken Map
- July 19, 1944 Leghorn Map
- August 15 – September 14, 1944 Operation Dragoon
- September 13, 1944 Operation Olive Attacks the Gothic Line at the Giogo pass Map
- October 27, 1944 Halted south of Bologna 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 21, 1945 Spring 1945 offensive in Italy Bologna taken Map
- April 26, 1945 Verona, across the Po Map
- May 4, 1945 – October 2, 1945 Meets the Seventh Army at the Brenner Pass Map