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Victory in Italy

15th Army Groups Final Campaign

Richard Doherty

First published in Great Britain in 2014 by
Pen & Sword Military
an imprint of
Pen & Sword Books Ltd
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Copyright Richard Doherty 2014

ISBN 978-1-78346-298-8

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Dedication

To the memory of all who served in Operation GRAPESHOT,
especially those who lost their lives.

And some there be, which have no memorial; who are perished, as though they had never
been; and are become as though they had never been born; and their children after them.
But these were merciful men, whose righteousness hath not been forgotten.
Their bodies are buried in peace; but their name liveth for evermore.
The people will tell of their wisdom, and the congregation will shew forth their praise.

That their dust may rebuild her a nation,
That their souls may relight her a star.

Maps and Figures

Map 1: Dispositions of opposing forces, April 1945

Map 2: 15th Army Group final plan for Operation GRAPESHOT

Map 3: Operation BUCKLAND: Allied bomber attacks on Eighth Armys front

Map 4: Operation BUCKLAND: V Corps plan

Map 5: V Corps exploits to the Panaro and the Po

Map 6: Fifth Army plan for Operation CRAFTSMAN

Map 7: Breakthrough into the Po Valley

Map 8: 15th Army Group exploits to the north-east and the north-west

Figure 1: A Sherman tank carrying cribs and baulks

Figure 2: A cross section of the Senio defences

Figure 3: A Sherman Firefly adapted to carry fascines

Maps

Note: maps have been simplified to show only essential detail and contours, many waterways and roads have been omitted since their inclusion would have made the maps so cluttered as to be of little value. The reader will be aware that Fifth Army, and some elements of Eighth Army, attacked from the high ground of the northern Apennines onto the plain of the Po, or the Lombardy Plain, and that Fifth Army then advanced into the Alps.

Further detail is available on Touring Club Italiano 1:200,000 maps 2 (Lombardy), 3 (Trentino Alto Adige); 4 (Veneto, Friuli Venezia Giulia) and 6 (Emilia Romagna); or 1:400,000 map 1 (Italia settentrionale/Northern Italy).

Map 1: Dispositions of opposing forces, April 1945.

Map 2: 15th Army Group final plan for Operation GRAPESHOT.

Map 3: Operation BUCKLAND: Allied bomber attacks on Eighth Armys front.

Map 4: Operation BUCKLAND: V Corps plan

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