User:Hungrydog55/sandbox/military/mediterranean/1944-08 Salerno oob
Order of battle
[edit]Allied
[edit]Naval and ground force commanders for Operation Avalanche
Vice Adm. H. Kent Hewitt, USN
Lt. Gen. Mark W. Clark, USA
Clark's corps commanders
Lt. Gen. Richard L. McCreery, BA
Maj. Gen. Ernest J. Dawley, USA
Allied Landing Forces[1]
- Embarked in Task Force 80 (Western Naval Task Force)
- Vice Admiral H. Kent Hewitt, USN
US Fifth Army- Lieutenant General Mark Wayne Clark, USA
British X Corps (Lt. Gen. Richard L. McCreery, BA)
US VI Corps (Maj. Gen. Ernest J. Dawley, USA)
Northern Landing Force (South of Salerno)
- Embarked in Task Force 85
- Commodore G.N. Oliver, RN
British X Corps- Lieutenant-General Richard L. McCreery, BA
- 46th Infantry Division (Maj.-Gen. John Hawkesworth)
- 56th (London) Infantry Division (Maj.-Gen. Douglas Graham)
- 7th Armoured Division (Maj.-Gen. George Erskine)
- 3 US Ranger Battalions (Lt. Col. William O. Darby, USA)
- 2 Commando Forces (Brig. Robert Laycock)
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[edit]Southern Landing Force (Paestum)
- Embarked in Task Force 81
- Rear Admiral John L. Hall Jr., USN
US VI Corps- Major General Ernest J. Dawley, USA
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Axis
[edit]Army group and army commanders
Fld. Mrshl. Albert Kesselring
GdPT Heinrich von Vietinghoff
Army Group C[2]
Generalfeldmarschall Albert Kesselring
- Tenth Army
- General Heinrich von Vietinghoff
- XIV Panzer Corps
- General der Panzertruppen Hermann Balck
- Deployed along coast from north to south of Naples:
- 15th Panzergrenadier Division (Generalleutnant Eberhard Rodt)
- Panzer Division Hermann Göring (Generalmajor Wilhelm Schmalz)
- 16th Panzer Division (Generalleutnant Rudolf Sieckenius)[a]
- LXXVI Panzer Corps
- General der Panzertruppen Traugott Herr
- Deployed in Calabria and Apulia:
- 26th Panzer Division (Generalleutnant Smilo Freiherr von Lüttwitz)
- 3rd Panzergrenadier Division (Generalleutnant Fritz-Hubert Gräser)
- 29th Panzergrenadier Division (Generalleutnant Walter Fries)
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