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 German forces in Italy.
Supreme Allied Commander, Mediterranean Theatre
Field Marshal Sir Harold Alexander
General Mark Wayne Clark
Lieutenant General Lucian K. Truscott
Corps deployed west to east:
IV Corps editLieutenant General Willis D. Crittenberger
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II Corps editMajor General Geoffrey Keyes
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Lieutenant-General Sir Richard McCreery
Generaloberst Heinrich von Vietinghoff (to 29 April)
General der Infanterie Friedrich Schulz (from 29 April to 2 May)
Generaloberst Heinrich von Vietinghoff (from 2 May)
Marshal Rodolfo Graziani
Generalleutnant Joachim Lemelsen
Generalleutnant Traugott Herr