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The Final Campaign Across Northwest Italy, 14 April-2 May 1945

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Item Number: L0374

The Final Campaign Across Northwest Italy, 14 April-2 May 1945

Edited by Col. Curtis H. Nance

Published in 1945 by Headquarters IV Corps, U.S. Army, Italy

From the book:

HEADQUARTERS FIFTH ARMY

APO 464 US ARMY

1 August 1945

The military operations in the Po Valley which ended the fighting in Italy and resulted in the unconditional surrender of all enemy forces marked the first complete theatre-wide success of Allied arms in this war. The participation of the IV US Corps in the Po Valley campaign is related briefly in this booklet.

As Commander of the Fifth Army of which the IV Corps was a part, I am privileged to have this opportunity of testifying to the very great contribution that that Corps made to the success of those operations and of paying tribute here to the courage and determination displayed by its officers "and men throughout.

It is to be regretted that space limitations have necessitated the omission from this narrative of the human details that compose the drama of war. No reading should proceed without taking pause to think upon them—the untold acts of individual sacrifice and bravery that underlay every action recorded and without which the victory could not have been achieved—or this story written.

L. K. TRUSCOTT, JR.,
Lieutenant General, U.S. Army, Commanding

Military Reference Library #L374

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Contents

INTRODUCTORY
- Apennine Winter
- Preliminary Operations
- The IV Corps Mission
- Troop List
- Final Preparations
- Air and Weather
MOUNTAINS TO FOOTHILLS
- Sticky Going
- Clearing Highway 64
- The Rubber Band is Stretched
- The Picture Changes
- Opportunity for Armor
- The 85th and 10th Push On
INTO THE VALLEY
- Infantry and Armor Push Through
- On to the River
- The 1st Armored Gets Going
- Brazilians Scent Game
- The Western Barriers Vanish
THE CROSSING AND BEYOND
- Best Laid Plans
- The 10th Mountain Operation
- The Bridges
- The Vacant Adige Line
STRATEGIC ENVELOPMENT
- Vulnerable Flank
- 91st Recon Probes
- The 1st Armored Begins Regrouping
- Rumble of Track-laying Vehicles
- Como and the Swiss Border
THE CLEAN UP
- The Red Bull Bellows
- The 148th Division Surrenders
- Pemsel Turns in His Suit
- Long Road Home
- Partisans at Milan
- SS at Milan, Monza and Brescia
- Italian Republican Forces
- Mussolini and Friends
THE LXXV THINKS TWICE
- Withdrawal from the Border
- French to the West
- Hesitation
- The Modern Cannae
- Schlemmer Signs on the Dotted Line
FRUITS OF VICTORY
- Entry into Milan
- Military Government Begins
- Primary Disarmament of LXXV Corps
- Partisans Go Home
- The Score for IV Corps
Maps
- The Winter Line in Italy
- IV Corps Preliminary Operations
- Enemy Order of Battle
- IV Corps Boundaries and Objectives
- The Main Attack
- Front Lines, 14-19 April
- Front Lines, 19-23 April
- Communities, Highways and Waterways
- Po River Crossing and Bridgehead
- Front Lines in Northern Salient
- Front Lines in Strategic Envelopment
- Front Lines in Western Salient
- The Como Region
- Turin, the Riviera and the Border

146 pages
48 photos
10 illustrations
6 color insiginia illustrations
14 maps

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