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Militari impegnati nella battaglia di Torricella (Vernio) nel 1944
linea gotica appennino
Passo del Giogo
Linea Gotica in Appennino monte pigna
85th Division troops on Mt Verruca
attacking Gothic Line
CASALECCHIO 1945
Tenth Indian Division on the Gothic Line
advance to the Gothic Line, 27-28 August 1944
10th Mountain Division appennino linea gotica
monte pastore 1945 linea gotica
Mounte Terminale appennino
rocca di roffeno Platoon of the Tenth Mountain Division 126th Engineers
M4 Sherman Dozer 16th Engineers Clear Rubble in Italy Gothic Line 1944
soldati in direzione monte altuzzo linea gotica
the mountains, Pizzo di Campiano, Belvedere and Torraccia
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futa pass 1945 roncobilaccio
futa pass sasso di castro
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Unidentified Ontario unit of Canadian Infantry advance against the Gothic Line
Mount Delle Formiche 1945
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linea gotica pass giogo
Northern Apennines 1945
German Troops in tropical gear in Maze field with artillary.
gothic line offensive Monte Altuzzo
the Gothic line in the Apennines-2
gotic line pietra colora 1945 distruzione artiglieria
cereglio prov bologna General Joseph McNarney
March 1945. View of Pietra Colora, Italy
attacking Gothic Line-3
46th Division on the Gothic Line, 7 September 1944
monte adone 1945
Riola bologna nov 1944
1945 April 17 Fifth Army Cereglio appennino
grazzano borgo sanlorenzo linea gotica german soldier
Appennino Mountains of Italy in 1945 linea gotica
futa pass cartina linea difensiva
Division 2nd Battalion 85th Regiment stand near a stock of ammunition località Gaggio Montano
Northern Apennines 1945 Medical Battalion in the Apennines Italy
Anti-Tank Regiment is towed across the River Foglia during the assault on the Gothic Line
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giogo pass 1945 german soldier
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Fortifications of the Gothic line
Monte Altuzzo linea gotica soldati tedeschi
16/04/1945, Castel d’Aiano (BO), Italy.
Il Pfc Lavarence Lucas, Spokane, Washington, 604° Artiglieria da Campo, 10a Divisione di Montagna, si stacca per pochi minuti dalla sua mitragliatrice Browning per lavarsi i piedi nell’elmetto
1945 Pietracolora è una frazione del comune di Gaggio Montano
Motor Transport in Northern Apennines
Bunker linea gotica a Santa Lucia
monte belvedere linea gotica
1945 appennino
Linea Gotica soldato tedesco 1945
Monte della Vedetta in Bologna
Long lines of infantry of the 351st Infantry Regiment, 88th Division drive along Highway 64 towards Bologna at Marzabotto
appennino linea gotica
the Gothic Line near River Foglia, 28-29 Aug 1944
gothic line September 17, 1944, Grezzano Borgo San Lorenzo
87th Mountain Regiment appennino linea gotica
convoglio americano appennino linea gotica
giogo pass – linea gotica offensiva german 1945
Bomba ha danneggiato città di Monghidoro Italia nel novembre del 1944
the Gothic Line near Futa Pass.
Rocca di Roffeno cereglio bologna linea gotica
PIANORO BOLOGNA
Partial aerial view of the Bologna Stadium occupied by the 56th Evacuation Hospital from April 25
Linea Gotica SODATI INGLESI APPOSTATI
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Gothic Line in the area Giogo Pass Italy fall 1944
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GOTHIC LINE GIOCO PASS
Gothic Line, September 1944.
gothic line Statale 65 della Futa settembre 1944
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tanks advance to Gothic Line August 1944
Roffeno Musiolo prov di bologna
Scarperia April 21 1945-linea gotica
349th Infantry Regiment, 88th Infantry Division monte belvedere
Ottobre 1944 Veduta della strada del Muraglione dopo la liberazione
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the Gothic Line, 27 August 1944
FORTIFICATIONS A LONG THE GOTHIC
linea gotica località barga bombardata
PASSO RADICOSA 1944
futa pass italy zona Montefredente
Postazione tedesca in trincea a sbarramento della probabile strada verso la Sassa
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Giogo pass was part of the infamous Gothic Line
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Rocca di Roffeno bologna provincia linea gotica
Roffeno Musiolo provincia di bologna
Vista aerea di fortificazioni sulla Linea Gotica negli Appennini
LINEA GOTICA FOTO
The Gothic Line (Gotenstellung in German, English Gothic Line) defensive line was established by German Field Marshal Albert Kesselring in 1944 in an attempt to slow the advance of the allied army commanded by General Harold Alexander to northern Italy. The defensive line stretched from the province of Apuania (current Massa and Carrara), to the Adriatic coast in Pesaro, following a front of over 300 kilometers on the mountains of the Apuan Alps continuing east along the hills of Garfagnana, in the Apennine mountains Modenese, the Bolognese Apennines, the upper valley of the Arno, the Tiber and the Apennines Forlì, where he distinguished body of Polish volunteers. Only in the eastern sector of the line, in the summer of 1944, there were 3,604 trenches, 479 anti-tank emplacements and mortars, 2,376 machine gun nests, 16,000 positions for snipers, nine kilometers of anti-tank ditches as well as 120 km of cross-linked and 95,689 mines anti-personnel and anti-tank. It was not neglected the tactical organization of the line and was applied by the German method of “defense in depth” using a system of bands fortified in succession, some kilometer deep, depending on the conformation of the ground. This system proved very useful to contain attacks allies for many months. No coincidence that one speaks of the Gothic Line (Green) I and II, just to distinguish the first from the second line, placed an average of about twenty kilometers north of the first, well organized defense in the Adriatic and with a vague trend in Apennine sector where it will be reconstructed continuously by the Germans, taking advantage of the long time granted by the slow allied advance.
Le forze in campo
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The Allied landing in southern France (Operation Dragoon) took place August 15, 1944, meant that some departments Allies in Italy were moved from the front to be merged with the necessary forces landing in France. The entire French Expeditionary Corps made up of four divisions colonial trained to mountain warfare, three American divisions of the 15th Army Group commanded by General Harold Alexander were then removed from the Italian front. Before the attack on the Gothic Line, the Allies were then calculated in 19 infantry divisions and five armored divisions, plus three divisions of reinforcement, but the need to re-coordination of allied forces gave the British XIII Corps commanded by General Sidney Kirkman and composed of the 6th Armored Division, the dall’1ª by the 8th Indian Infantry Division Indian unit supported by an armored brigade from the 78th Division and later Canadian English, the 5th Army under General Mark W. Clark was unguarded. The 5th Army, remained heavily unguarded, were also part of the second and fourth body, controlled respectively by General Geoffrey Keyes and Willis D. Crittenberger, to which were added in September the 6th South African Armoured Division and the Brazilian contingent of the Brazilian Expeditionary Force, in October, the 92nd Infantry Division of the US, and in November the 10th Mountain Division always from the US While the western sector from the Tyrrhenian Sea to Florence was held from the 5th US Army, the eastern sector was instead under the control of the 8th British army under the command of Sir Oliver Leese, which included the X Corps under General Richard McCreery, the V Corps under the command of Lieutenant General Sir Charles Keightley which included no less than 5 divisions ready to move towards Bologna and Ferrara, and that which will later be added to the New Zealand 2nd Division and a brigade from the Greek mountains. Finally, there were the Canadian Corps and the Polish II Corps, concentrated in the area between the Apennines and the Adriatic Sea, the first under the command of Lieutenant General Eedson Burns and directed towards the hills west of Pesaro and the second led by General Polish Władysław Anders with the task of occupying the high ground to the north-west of Pesaro. As for aviation, for the Allies complete air supremacy was secured by about 2,900 aircraft supplied to the two Allied armies that attacked the Gothic Line.
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