Italian Campaign (World War II)

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 Italy Result Allied victory; Collapse of Fascist Italy Surrender of Army Group C
Belligerents
Allies:  United Kingdom  India  Mandatory Palestine  United States Italian Resistance  Kingdom of Italy  (from 8 September 1943)  Canada  Free France South Africa Poland  Australia Brazil  New Zealand Kingdom of Greece  Belgium Syria  Czechoslovakia	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 (1945)	1,000,000 (1944) 1,621 aircraft (average) 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+ 13,021 killed 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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