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British infantry moving cautiously through the ruined streets of Impruneta, 3 August 1944. After the capture of Rome, and the Allied invasion of Normandy in June, the U.S. VI Corps and the French Expeditionary Corps (CEF), which together amounted to seven divisions, were pulled out of Italy during the summer of 1944 to participate in Operation ...
The 10th escaped because General Mark W. Clark ordered Lucian Truscott to choose Operation Turtle towards Rome rather than Operation Buffalo as ordered by Sir Harold R. L. G. Alexander, which would have cut Route 6 at Valmonte. There was a huge gap between the armies and with the Allies advancing some 10 km per day, the flanks of both armies ...
Algeria-French Morocco (Allied invasion of French North Africa) 8–11 November 1942 [24] Tunisia 17 November 1942 – 13 May 1943 [24] Sicily 9 July-17 August 1943 [24] Naples-Foggia 18 August 1943 – 21 January 1944 (Air); 9 September 1943 – 21 January 1944 (Ground) [24] Anzio 22 January-24 May 1944 [24] Rome-Arno 22 January-9 September ...
The Gustav Line was finally broken in May 1944, while Rome was captured on 4 June, and the Germans retreated to the Gothic Line in Northern Italy, [20] where the Allies were held until they broke into the Po Valley in a successful offensive in April 1945. [21] In June 1944, the U.S. Army participated in Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion ...
Air: 18 August 1943 – 21 January 1944; Ground: 9 September 1943 – 21 January 1944, from the Allied invasion of Italy to the Winter Line battles; Anzio: 22 January – 24 May 1944, the landing and battle at Anzio; Rome–Arno: 22 January – 9 September 1944, from the landing at Anzio to the arrival at the Gothic Line
Ground: 9 September 1943 – 21 January 1944, from the Allied invasion of Italy to the Winter Line battles; Anzio: 22 January - 24 May 1944, the landing and battle at Anzio; Rome-Arno: 22 January - 9 September 1944, from the landing at Anzio to the arrival at the Gothic Line; Northern Apennines: 10 September 1944 – 4 April 1945, the Gothic ...
Rome-Arno 1944. The U.S. Army Campaigns of World War II. Washington: United States Army Center of Military History. ISBN 978-0-16-042085-6. CMH Pub 72-20. Archived from the original on 20 April 2011; Majdalany, Fred (1957). Cassino: Portrait of a Battle. London: Longmans, Green. OCLC 536746.
The Mediterranean and Middle East: Part III - November 1944 to May 1945. History of the Second World War United Kingdom Military Series. Vol. VI (Naval & Military Press, Uckfield ed.). London: HMSO. ISBN 1-84574-072-6. Laurie, Clayton D. (c. 1990). Rome-Arno 22 January – 9 September 1944. WWII Campaigns.