Fifth Army at the Winter Line (15 November 1943-15 January 1944) (Paperback)
Author: Etats-Unis. Office of military history
Publisher: Government Printing Office
Published: 1945
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9780160899256
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Etats-Unis. Office of military history
Publisher: Government Printing Office
Published: 1945
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9780160899256
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Publisher: Government Printing Office
Published: 1948
Total Pages: 117
ISBN-13: 9780160899614
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. War Dept. General Staff
Publisher:
Published: 1945
Total Pages: 136
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Center of Center of Military History United States Army
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: 2015-01-07
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9781506087658
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Third of the three-volume account of the Allied campaign in Italy from the landings in September 1943 to operations preceding the landings at Anzio and the march on Rome.
Author: United States. War Department. General Staff
Publisher:
Published: 1945
Total Pages: 118
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Anon
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
Published: 2014-08-15
Total Pages: 82
ISBN-13: 1782894608
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Illustrated with 28 maps and 35 Illustrations. THE WINTER LINE operations, lasting from 15 November 1943 to 15 January 1944, continued the Allied campaign to drive the Germans out of southern Italy. The underlying plan was to keep pressure on the enemy and, if possible, to break through toward Rome. Both the terrain and the season reduced the chances for effecting a breakthrough. By maintaining pressure, however, the Allies would prevent the Germans from, resting and refitting the tired and depleted divisions which they might hold as a mobile reserve for the close defense of Rome in the event of a new Allied landing on the west coast or for use in a possible counteroffensive in the opening months of 1944. Then too, the fighting in Italy had its effects on the over-all military situation in Europe. As long as the Germans were actively engaged on the Italian front, they would be forced to feed in men and supplies which would otherwise be available for the war in Russia or for strengthening their Atlantic Wall against an expected Allied invasion in 1944. Continuation of the Italian campaign was not in question; the problem was how best to carry it on. The Allied effort was therefore maintained in an offensive planned to break the enemy’s Winter Line, a series of well-prepared positions along the shortest possible line across the waist of Italy-from the Garigliano River on the west through mountains in the center to the Sangro River on the east. For the individual soldiers of the Fifth Army, the attack resolved itself into the familiar pattern of bitter fighting from hill to hill.
Author: U.s. Army Center for Military History
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2015-11-10
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9781519215628
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Fifth Army at the Winter Line" is a sequel to "From the Volturno to the Winter Line." The actions of the United States II and VI Corps are told here in detail. They were aided by other Allied units under Fifth Army: British 10 Corps on the left flank, and the French Expeditionary Corps, for the last two weeks of the period, on the right flank. The actions of these units and of the British Eighth Army on the Adriatic coast are summarized briefly. "Fifth Army at the Winter Line (15 November 1943-15 January 1944)" is one of a series of fourteen studies of World War II operations originally published by the War Department's Historical Division and now returned to print as part of the Army's commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of that momentous clash of arms. These volumes, prepared by professional historians shortly after the events described, provide a concise summary of some of the major campaigns and battles fought by American soldiers.
Author: Center of Military History
Publisher:
Published: 1945
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Third of the three-volume account of the Allied campaign in Italy from the landings in September 1943 to operations preceding the landings at Anzio and the march on Rome.
Author: United States Government Printing Office
Publisher:
Published: 1945-01-01
Total Pages: 127
ISBN-13: 9780160020001
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