Second Battle of Monte Cassino order of battle February 1944

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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.

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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. 1 2 3 From 1st Parachute Division [2]
Citations
  1. Ellis, p. 555.
  2. 1 2 3 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. 1 2 3 Molony, p. 734.
  5. Molony, p. 696.

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