Italian Campaign | |||||||
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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. |
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Belligerents | |||||||
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Commanders and leaders | |||||||
C-in-C Allied Forces Headquarters:![]() ![]() ![]() (from December 1944) |
C-in-C Army Group C:![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Strength | |||||||
1,333,856 men (April 1945) 4,000 aircraft (March 1945) |
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Casualties and losses | |||||||
Sicily: 22,000 casualties Total: 327,000–335,495 ![]() |
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 ![]() ![]() |
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~152,940 civilians dead |
Allied victory;
United States
Free France
Canada