Liberation of Italy

Italian Campaign

Part of the Mediterranean and Middle East theatre of World War II

American soldiers of the U.S. 92nd Infantry Division fire a bazooka at a German machine gun nest, Lucca 1944.

Date

10 July 1943 – 2 May 1945
(1 year, 10 months and 22 days)

Location

Result

Allied victory;

Collapse of Fascist Italy (1943)
Surrender of Army Group C (1945)

Belligerents

Allies:
United Kingdom

United States
Free France
Canada

Italian Resistance

Italian Royal Army (from September 1943)

Axis:
Germany

Bohemia and Moravia

Kingdom of Italy
(until 8 September 1943)

Italian Social Republic
(from 18 September 1943)

Commanders and leaders

C-in-C Allied Forces Headquarters:

Dwight D. Eisenhower (until January 1944)

Henry Maitland Wilson (January to December 1944)

Harold Alexander
(from December 1944)

C-in-C Army Group C:

Albert Kesselring

Heinrich von Vietinghoff (POW) (Oct 44 to Jan 45 and March 45 onwards)

Vittorio Ambrosio

Rodolfo Graziani (POW)

Strength

1,333,856 men (April 1945)
4,000 aircraft (March 1945)

439,224 men(April 1945)

79 aircraft (April 1945)

160,180 men (April 1945)

5,002

Casualties and losses

Sicily: 22,000 casualties
Italian mainland: ~305,000 – 313,495 casualties
8,011 aircraft

Total: 327,000–335,495

35,828 killed

Sicily: 165,000 casualties (of whom 30,000 were Germans)
Italian mainland: 336,650 casualties–415,615
4,500+ aircraft lost
Surrender of Caserta: 500,000+ captured
Total: 1,000,000

35,000 killed

10 killed, 15 wounded and 800 defected

~152,940 civilians dead

Allied victory;

Allies:
United Kingdom

United States
Free France
Canada

Axis:
Germany

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