Operation Avalanche
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- 5. The landings were carried out by the U.S. Fifth Army, under Lieutenant General Mark W. Clar
- 6. A field marshalldecided that defending Italy south of Rome was not a strategic priority
- 7. Its primary objectives were to seize a port to ensure resupply,
- 8. It took until mid-January 1944 to fight through the Volturno, Barbara and Bernhardt lines to reach the Gustav Line,
- 9. Germans chose to fight delaying actions
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- 1. Chief of Staff of the United States Army, and much of the American staff wanted to undertake no operations that might delay the Normandy invasion.
- 2. TheBritish Prime Minister,
- 3. Over 12–14 September the Germans organized a concerted counterattack
- 4. Codename for the Allied landings near the port of Salerno,