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bigpigeon.us webpage WWII Germany > The MTO > Italy > Italy - Sources, © 2024 by Robert A. Christiansen, updated by RAC 14 Jul 2024.
This is a collection of sources used in the Italian Campaigns submodule of Big Pigeon.
This webpage is under development July 2024.
bigpigeon.us webpage WWII Germany > The MTO > Italy > Italy - Sources, © 2024 by Robert A. Christiansen, updated by RAC 14 Jul 2024.
This is a collection of sources used in the Italian Campaigns submodule of Big Pigeon.
This webpage is under development July 2024.
██ Sources for Big Pigeon's WWII Germany > The MTO > Italy > Italy Order of Battle webpage ██
+++ Campaign Histories +++
Wikipedia's campaign webpages:
US Army Center for Military History histories of WWII in Italy:
+++ Order of Battle +++
Wikipedia Order of Battle webpages:
+++ Maps +++
Campaign maps:
+++ Other Sources +++
+++ Material on Italy not specific to WWII +++
My sources that aren't on-line:
Sources specific for this page:
+++ Campaign Histories +++
Wikipedia's campaign webpages:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Anzio
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Monte_Cassino - the four battles of Monte Cassino
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Diadem - fourth Battle of Monte Cassino
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spring_1945_offensive_in_Italy
- Sicily 1943, https://history.army.mil/Brochures/72-16/72-16.htm
- Naples–Foggia 1943–1944, https://history.army.mil/brochures/naples/72-17.htm
- Anzio 1944, https://history.army.mil/brochures/anzio/72-19.htm
- Rome–Arno 1944, https://history.army.mil/brochures/romar/72-20.htm
- North Apennines `1944–1945, https://history.army.mil/brochures/nap/72-34.htm
- Po Valley 1945, https://history.army.mil/brochures/po/72-33.htm
- Salerno, American Operations from the Beaches to the Volturno, 9 September-6 October 1943 (American Forces in Action series, U.S. Army Center of Military History, CMH #100-7) - https://history.army.mil/html/books/100/100-7/CMH_Pub_100-7.pdf.
US Army Center for Military History histories of WWII in Italy:
- Salerno to Cassino, https://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USA/USA-MTO-Salerno/index.html
- Cassino to the Alps, https://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USA/USA-MTO-Cassino/index.html#index
+++ Order of Battle +++
Wikipedia Order of Battle webpages:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Husky_order_of_battle - Sicily Campaign
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allied_invasion_of_Italy_order_of_battle
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anzio_order_of_battle
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Monte_Cassino_order_of_battle_January_1944
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Diadem_order_of_battle - 4th Battle of Monte Cassino
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic_Line_order_of_battle
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Grapeshot_order_of_battle - Po Valley Campaign
- https://www.britishmilitaryhistory.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/124/2020/06/43.09-Order-of-Battle-A.A.I..pdf - Italy, September 1943
- https://www.britishmilitaryhistory.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/124/2020/06/44.01-Order-of-Battle-A.A.I..pdf - Italy, January 1944
- https://www.britishmilitaryhistory.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/124/2020/06/44.05-Order-of-Battle-A.A.I..pdf - Italy, March–May 1944
- https://www.britishmilitaryhistory.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/124/2020/06/44.08.25-Order-of-Battle-A.A.I.pdf - Italy, 25 August 1944
- https://www.britishmilitaryhistory.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/124/2020/06/45.04.09-Order-of-Battle-A.A.I..pdf - Italy, 9 April 1945
+++ Maps +++
Campaign maps:
- https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/cnuu47/the_italian_front_ww2_us_uk_forces_highlighted/#lightbox
- https://custermen.com/Maps/MapGustav.jpg
- https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7d/WWII51_Gothic_Line.jpg
- The The Italian Campaign in Sicily and the Mainland map is courtesy of Infobase Publishing and is included in the maps at https://inflab.medium.com/southern-front-maps-of-world-war-ii-ffbd40467bc3. Note an error, the Anzio Beachhead breakout didn't occur until the end of May.
- http://liberationtrilogy.com/books/day-of-battle/maps-from-the-day-of-battle/images-of-maps-from-the-day-of-battle/ - access maps from The Day of Battle.
- https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Atlas_of_the_World_Battle_Fronts_in_Semimonthly_Phases_to_August_15_1945
+++ Other Sources +++
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_formations_of_the_United_States_Army_during_World_War_II#Field_Armies - portal to wikipedia entries for WWII US Army army groups, field armies, corps, and divisions.
- U.S. Army World War II Corps Commanders:, A Composite Biography, by Robert H. Berlin, https://www.armyupress.army.mil/Portals/7/combat-studies-institute/csi-books/berlin2.pdf.
- List of United States Divisions during World War II, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_divisions_during_World_War_II.
- https://history.army.mil/html/forcestruc/cbtchron/cbtchron.html - WWII US Army divisional combat chronicles.
- Army Battle Casualties and Nonbattle Deaths in World War II, pp. 92-95, https://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USA/ref/Casualties/Casualties-1.html
+++ Material on Italy not specific to WWII +++
- The Regions of Italy map is courtesy of italiantourism.us.
- http://www.italyouritaly.com/blog/2021/4/13/regions-provinces-comuni-of-italy contains more information about the current political organization (regions, provinces and communes) of Italy.
- The Physical Map of Italy map is courtesy of privateinternetaccess.com. (broken link May 2024)
My sources that aren't on-line:
- The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943–1944 (Rick Atkinson, Henry Holt & Co., 2007)
Sources specific for this page: