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Italian Campaign (World War II)

Italian Campaign
Part of the Mediterranean and Middle East theatre of World War II
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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 Italy
Result

Allied victory;

Belligerents

Allies:
 United Kingdom

 United States

Italian Resistance
 Kingdom of Italy
 (from 8 September 1943)
 Canada
 Free France
Union of South Africa South Africa
Poland Poland
 Australia
Brazil Brazil
 New Zealand
Greece Kingdom of Greece
 Belgium
Syria
 Czechoslovakia

Axis:
 Germany

 Kingdom of Italy
 (until 8 September 1943)
 Italian Social Republic
 (from 18 September 1943)
Commanders and leaders
C-in-C Allied Forces Headquarters:
United States Dwight D. Eisenhower (until January 1944)
United Kingdom Henry Maitland Wilson (January to December 1944)
United Kingdom Harold Alexander
 (from December 1944)
C-in-C Army Group C:
Nazi Germany Albert Kesselring
Nazi Germany Heinrich von Vietinghoff (POW) (Oct 44 to Jan 45 and March 45 onwards)
Kingdom of Italy Vittorio Ambrosio
Italian Social Republic Rodolfo Graziani (POW)
Strength
1,333,856 (1945) Nazi Germany 1,000,000 (1944)
1,621 aircraft (average)
Flag of Bohmen und Mahren.svg 5,002
Casualties and losses

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


Total: 327,000–335,495
15,197 killed
Sicily: 165,000 casualties (of whom 30,000 were Germans)
Italian mainland: 336,650 casualties–580,630
4,500+ aircraft lost
Surrender of Caserta: 1,000,000 captured
Total: 1,501,650–1,745,630+
Italian Social Republic 13,021 killed
Flag of Bohmen und Mahren.svg 10 killed, 15 wounded and 800 defected
~152,940 civilians dead

Allied victory;

Allies:
 United Kingdom

 United States

Axis:
 Germany

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

The Italian Campaign of World War II was the name of Allied operations in and around Italy, from 1943 to the end of the war in Europe. Joint Allied Forces Headquarters (AFHQ) was operationally responsible for all Allied land forces in the Mediterranean theatre, and it planned and commanded the invasion of Sicily in July 1943, followed shortly thereafter in September by the invasion of the Italian mainland and the campaign on Italian soil until the surrender of the German Armed Forces in Italy in May 1945.


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