From the Volturno to the Winter Line (6 October-15 November 1943).
Author: United States. War Department. General Staff
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Published: 1944
Total Pages: 136
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. War Department. General Staff
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Published: 1944
Total Pages: 136
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Published: 1945
Total Pages: 138
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Second 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
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Published: 2013
Total Pages: 119
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Publisher: Government Printing Office
Published: 2000-10
Total Pages: 136
ISBN-13: 9780160019999
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Center of Military History Publication 100 8. Armerican Forces in Action Series. Reprint of a book originally published in the 1940 as part of a series designed exclusively for wounded soldiers in hospitals to tell them the story of the campaigns and battles in which they had served. Narrates the actions of the American VI Corps, which served as the right flank of Fifth Army during the six weeks of the advance from the Volturno to the Winter Line. Bottom of cover reads: World War 2, 50th Anniversary Commemorative Edition.
Author: Anon
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
Published: 2014-08-15
Total Pages: 76
ISBN-13: 1782894616
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Illustrated with 30 maps and 36 Illustrations. BEFORE DAWN ON THE MORNING OF 13 Oct. 1943, American and British assault troops of the Fifth Army waded the rain-swollen Volturno River in the face of withering fire from German riflemen and machine gunners dug in along the northern bank. This crossing of the Volturno opened the second phase of the Allied campaign in Italy. Five weeks earlier the Fifth Army had landed on the hostile beaches of the Gulf of Salerno. Now it was attacking a well-defended river line. Along the Volturno the Germans had entrenched themselves in the first good defensive position north of Naples. Under pressure from the Fifth Army, commanded by Lt. Gen. Mark W. Clark, their rearguards had relinquished the great port of Naples with its surrounding airfields, providing us with the base necessary for large-scale operations west of the rugged Apennine mountain range, backbone of the Italian peninsula. East of the Apennines the British Eighth Army, under General Sir Bernard L. Montgomery, had reached the mouth of the Biferno River during the first week of Oct.. The Eighth and Fifth Armies now held a line across the peninsula running south from Torre Petacciato on the Adriatic Sea for some sixty-five miles, then west to a point on the Tyrrhenian Sea just south of the Volturno. Along this line of rivers and mountains the Germans clearly intended to make a stubborn stand, hoping to delay, perhaps to stop, our northward advance. Within six weeks, Fifth Army troops had driven the Germans back to the Volturno, had executed a difficult river crossing in the face of a well-entrenched enemy, had gone on to cross the river a second and a third time, and had forced Kesselring’s hard-pressed army back into the chain of mountains which formed his next strong defensive position. Whether fighting across rivers, through valleys, or up steep mountain slopes, our men had everywhere proved their ability to defeat Hitler’s vaunted master race.
Author: United States. War Department. General Staff
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Published: 1943
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Center of Center of Military History United States Army
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: 2015-01-07
Total Pages: 130
ISBN-13: 9781506097565
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Second 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: U. S. War Department
Publisher: University Press of the Pacific
Published: 2001-12-01
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9780898756487
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Originally prepared by the War Department in 1944, Volturno was based on the best military records available. After Fifth Army, commanded by Lt. Gen Mark W. Clark, had established the Salerno beachhead and captured Naples, it pushed the Germans northward across the Volturno River and into the mountain defenses of the Winter Line. The actions of the American VI Corps, which served as right flank of Fifth Army during the six weeks of this advance, are here narrated in detail. Closely related actions of the British 10 Corps, Fifth Armys left flank, and of the British Eighth Army, operating on the Adriatic coast, are summarized briefly.