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Finito! The Po Valley Campaign, HQ 15th Army Group, 1945. Secret surrender negotiations between representatives of the Germans and Western Allies had taken place in Switzerland (Operation Crossword) in March, but had resulted only in protests from the Soviets that the Western Allies were attempting to negotiate a separate peace. On 28 April ...
The Spring 1945 offensive in Italy, codenamed Operation Grapeshot, was the final Allied attack during the Italian Campaign in the final stages of the Second World War. [1] The attack into the Lombard Plain by the Allied 15th Army Group started on 6 April 1945 and ended on 2 May with the surrender of Axis forces in Italy .
In February 1945, operations began that drove the Germans from the Rhineland, and the Rhine was crossed in March 1945. [25] In April 1945, U.S. Army forces entered the heartland of Germany. Operations continued until the war in Europe ended on 8 May 1945 with the signing of unconditional surrender the previous day. [21]
The battalion participated in the North Apennines Campaign from 10 September 1944. The North Apennines Campaign concluded on 4 April 1945. The battalion participated in the Po Valley Campaign from 5 April 1945. The Po Valley Campaign concluded on 8 May 1945; The battalion was located at Salzburg, Austria on 14 August 1945.
The digitization of this publication was made possible by Ginger Lane, her sisters, and their children, in memory of their brother and uncle, Alfons Weber, of blessed memory
United States Army operations in the theater began with Operation Torch, when Allied forces landed on the beaches of northwest Africa on 8 November 1942, and concluded in the Italian Alps some 31 months later, with the German surrender in Italy on 2 May 1945. For administrative purposes, U.S. components were responsible to Headquarters North ...
Northern Apennines: 10 September 1944 – 4 April 1945, the Gothic Line battles; Po Valley: 5 April – 8 May 1945, the allied spring offensive 1945; Western Europe campaigns: Air Offensive Europe: 4 July 1942 – 5 June 1944, from the first American bombing mission over enemy-occupied territory in Europe to the night before D-day
Allied Spring Offensive: Italy 1945, 9 April – 2 May. This map shows the advance of the Polish II Corps on Bologna Map of US IV and II Corps breakthrough into the Po valley, April 1945 (this map shows operations in the Bologna region, 14–21 April 1945, but does not seem to show any operations of non-US troops in the region)