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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, launched by the United States Fifth Army, the British Eighth Army and the Brazilian Expeditionary Force 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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  • 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, launched by the United States Fifth Army, the British Eighth Army and the Brazilian Expeditionary Force 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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  • Spring 1945 Offensive
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  • incl. 2.860 killed
  • 16,258 casualtiesref|From 9 April 1945 until the end of Operation Grapeshot, thus casualties exclude those suffered during the preliminary operations.5th Army: 7,965 casualties. American: 6,834 (1,288 killed, 5,453 wounded and 93 missing) casualties; South African: 537 (89 killed, 445 wounded and 3 missing) casualties; Brazilian: 594 (65 killed, 482 wounded and 47 missing) casualties.8th Army: 7,193 casualties. British: 3,068 (708 killed, 2,258 wounded and 102 missing) casualties; New Zealand: 1,381 (241 killed and 1,140 wounded) casualties; Indian: 1,076 (198 killed, 863 wounded and 15 missing) casualties; Colonial: 46 (11 killed and 35 wounded) casualties; Polish: 1,622 (260 killed, 1,355 wounded and 7 missing) casualties.Italians fighting with both armies: 1,100 (242 killed, 828 wounded and 30 missing) casualties.|group=nb
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  • Polish Army
  • (and others)
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  • Allied victory
  • *German surrender in Italy
  • *Italian Social Republic disestablished
  • *Partisanscapture & executeMussolini
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  • *British Eighth Army632,980 fighting strength
  • *German Fourteenth Army
  • *German Tenth Army
  • *U.S. Fifth Army266,883 fighting strength
  • 15th Army Groupref|Total army group strength including Lines of Communication and support troops totalled 1,333,856|group=nb
  • Army Group C394,000 fighting strengthref|In addition the army group had 91,000 Lines of Communication and anti-aircraft troops and controlled a further 100,000 local police|group=nb
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