Operation Grapeshot order of battle

Invasion of Italy Winter Line Gothic Line 1945 Spring Offensive The Spring 1945 offensive in Italy, codenamed Operation Grapeshot, was the final Allied attack during the Italian Campaign in the final stages of the Second World War.

[1] The attack into the Lombard Plain by the Allied 15th Army Group started on 6 April 1945 and ended on 2 May with the surrender of Axis forces in Italy.

Supreme Allied Commander, Mediterranean Theatre Field Marshal Sir Harold Alexander General Mark Wayne Clark Lieutenant General Lucian K. Truscott Corps deployed west to east: Lieutenant General Willis D. Crittenberger

Lieutenant-General John Hawkesworth Lieutenant-General Sir John Harding Major-General Zygmunt Bohusz-Szyszko (acting commander)

Generaloberst Heinrich von Vietinghoff (to 29 April) General der Infanterie Friedrich Schulz (from 29 April to 2 May) Generaloberst Heinrich von Vietinghoff (from 2 May) Maresciallo Rodolfo Graziani Generalleutnant Joachim Lemelsen Generalleutnant Traugott Herr