Time Astra

Schematic plan · World War II (Italy 1943-1944)

Battle of Triflisco

All battles
A schematic plan, generated from the statistics of the CAA Database of Battles: the armies' size and width, the hours of fighting, the plan of attack and the outcome are as recorded; the ground and the positions are not.
Rolling, Mixed groundCentreLeft wingRight wingReserveCentreGunsLeft wingRight wingReserveGunsArmourArmour02 km4 kmN

USA (US 3rd Inf Div, 18,476 men under Mg Truscott) attacked Germany (Ger Hermann Goering Pz Div(-), 7,250 men under Mg Schmaltz) in Italy. The CAA Database of Battles records 23.8 hours of fighting on a front of 9 km, a river crossing against prepared defense, and that USA won. Losses: USA 267 (1%), Germany 76 (1%).

This plan is generated from those figures. It shows the shape of the battle the database describes: the size and width of the armies, the plan of attack and the outcome. It does not show where the units actually stood.

The armies

USA

Mg Truscott

UnitArmMen
USA left wingInfantry3,900
USA centreInfantry5,200
USA right wingInfantry3,900
USA reserveInfantry3,250
USA artillery (113 guns)Artillery1,695
USA armour (106 tanks)Armour530
Mg TruscottCommander—
In this plan18,475

Germany

Mg Schmaltz

UnitArmMen
Germany left wingInfantry1,501
Germany centreInfantry2,002
Germany right wingInfantry1,501
Germany reserveInfantry1,251
Germany artillery (59 guns)Artillery885
Germany armour (22 tanks)Armour110
Mg SchmaltzCommander—
In this plan7,250

What the sources report

USAGermany
Strength, this plan18,4767,250
Losses, this plan26776

In the CAA Database of Battles

CDB90 no. 408, “Triflisco”, compiled for the US Army to study what decides battles. These are the figures a what-if engine can be calibrated against.

Fighting
23.8 hours
Winner
the attacker
Terrain
Rolling, Mixed
Weather
Dry, Sunny, Temperate, Autumn, Temperate
Defender’s posture
Prepared defense
Front width
9 km (attacker), 9 km (defender)
ForceStrengthLossesHorseGunsPlan and outcome
USAattacker18,4762670113River crossing; Penetration
Germanydefender7,25076059Defensive plan; Withdrew

Attacker’s advantages initiative +1 · surprise +1 · air superiority +1

CDB90 (US Army Concepts Analysis Agency, 1990), tidy edition by Jeffrey B. Arnold; data under ODC-BY 1.0.

Notes

On this reconstruction

Generated automatically from the statistics in CDB90. Frontages, depths, distances, the order of events and the terrain are schematic: they follow the recorded strengths, front widths, hours of fighting, tactical plan and outcome, not maps or accounts of the battle. The sources give no hours; the timing is conjectural.

Sources

Facts gathered from Wikidata (CC0), Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Wikimedia Commons (licence per file); the plan and its text are timeastra’s own.