Spring 1945 offensive in Italy

Spring 1945 Offensive
	Part of the Italian Campaign of World War II
	; British troops pick their way through the ruins of Argenta, 18 April 1945
Date	6 April 1945 – 2 May 1945
Location	Emilia-Romagna, Lombardy and the Veneto regions, northern Italy
Result	Decisive Allied victory; German surrender in Italy; Partisans capture & execute Mussolini; Italian Social Republic disestablished;
Belligerents
United Kingdom; United States; Polish Army; British India; Brazil; New Zealand; South Africa; Italy; and others	Germany; Italian Social Republic
Commanders and leaders
Harold Alexander; Mark Clark; Richard McCreery; Lucian Truscott	Heinrich von Vietinghoff (POW); Traugott Herr (POW); Joachim Lemelsen (POW); Benito Mussolini †; Rodolfo Graziani (POW)
Strength
15th Army Group; British 8th Army 632,980 fighting strength; U.S. 5th Army 266,883 fighting strength	Army Group C 394,000 fighting strength
Casualties and losses
16,258 casualties; incl. 2.860 killed	30–32,000 casualties

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The Spring 1945 offensive in Italy, codenamed Operation Grapeshot,^[5] was the Allied attack by Fifth United States Army and British 8th Army into the Lombardy Plain which started on 6 April 1945 and ended on 2 May with the surrender of German forces in Italy.

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