Second Battle of Monte Cassino order of battle February 1944

Second Battle of Monte Cassino order of battle February 1944 is a listing of the significant formations that were involved in the fighting on the Winter Line in February 1944 during the period generally known as the Second Battle of Monte Cassino.

Allied Armies in Italy

C-in-C: General Sir Harold Alexander
Chief of Staff: Lieutenant-General Sir John Harding

British 8th Army

Commander:

Lieutenant-General Oliver Leese

New Zealand Corps

Lieutenant-General Bernard Freyberg

German Army Group C

Commander:

Field Marshal Albert Kesselring

Tenth Army

Commander: General Heinrich von Vietinghoff

XIV Panzer Corps

Lieutenant-General Frido von Senger und Etterlin
  • 15th Panzergrenadier Division (elements at Anzio ordered back to Tenth Army on 8 February[4]) (Major General (Generalleutnant) Rudolf Sperl)
    • 104th Panzer Grenadier Regiment
      • 3 battalions
    • 115th Panzer Grenadier Regiment
      • 3 battalions
    • 129th Panzer Grenadier Regiment
      • 3 battalions
    • Divisional troops
      • 115th Armoured Reconnaissance battalion
      • 115th Panzer battalion
      • 33rd Artillery battalion
      • 33rd Anti-tank battalion
      • 115th Engineer battalion
  • 29th Panzergrenadier Division (ordered to Anzio early Feb[4]) Lieutenant General (General der Panzertruppen) Walter Fries)
    • 15th Panzer Grenadier Regiment
      • 3 battalions
    • 71st Panzer Grenadier Regiment
      • 3 battalions
    • Divisional troops
      • 129th Armoured Reconnaissance battalion
      • 129th Panzer battalion
      • 29th Artillery Regiment
      • 29th Anti-tank battalion
      • 29th Engineer battalion
      • 171st Engineer battalion
  • 44th Infantry Division (Major General (Generalleutnant) Friedrich Franek)
    • 131st Infantry Regiment
      • 3 battalions
    • 132nd Infantry Regiment
      • 3 battalions
    • 134th Infantry Regiment
      • 3 battalions
    • Divisional troops
      • 44th Fusilier battalion
      • 96th Artillery Regiment
      • 46th Anti-tank battalion
      • 96th Engineer battalion
  • 71st Infantry Division (elements at Anzio ordered back to Tenth Army on 8 February[4]) (Major General (Generalleutnant) Wilhelm Raapke)
    • 191st Infantry Regiment
      • 3 battalions
    • 194th Infantry Regiment
      • 3 battalions
    • 211st Infantry Regiment
      • 3 battalions
    • Divisional troops
      • 171st Fusilier battalion
      • 171st Artillery Regiment
      • 171st Anti-tank battalion
  • 90th Panzergrenadier Division (Major-General Ernst-Gunther Baade. Placed in charge of all troops in the Cassino position from 1 February.[5])
    • 155th Panzer Grenadier Regiment
      • 3 battalions
    • 200th Panzer Grenadier Regiment (Colonel von Behr)
      • 3 battalions
    • 361st Panzer Grenadier Regiment
      • 3 battalions
    • Divisional troops
      • 190th Armoured Reconnaissance battalion
      • 190th Panzer battalion
      • 190th Artillery Regiment
      • 90th Anti-tank battalion
      • 90th Engineer battalion
      • 3rd battalion 3rd Parachute Regiment[Note 1]
      • 2nd battalion 1st Parachute Regiment[Note 1]
      • Parachute Machine Gun Battalion[Note 1]
      • 4th Alpine Battalion[2]
  • 94th Infantry Division (Major General (Generalleutnant) Bernhard Steinmetz)
    • 267th Infantry Regiment
      • 3 battalions
    • 274th Infantry Regiment
      • 3 battalions
    • 276th Infantry Regiment
      • 3 battalions
    • Divisional troops
      • 94th Fusilier battalion
      • 194th Artillery Regiment
      • 194th Anti-tank battalion
      • 94th Engineer battalion

Notes

Footnotes
  1. From 1st Parachute Division[2]
Citations
  1. Ellis, p. 555.
  2. Molony, p. 697.
  3. Nicholson, G.W.L. (1969). More Fighting Newfoundlanders: A History of Newfoundland's Fighting Forces in the Second World War. St. John's: Government of Newfoundland. pp. 221–236.
  4. Molony, p. 734.
  5. Molony, p. 696.

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