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

Battle of Monte Camino II

8 November 1943
Italy
Victory for Germany

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.

Germany (Ger 15th Pz Gr Div(1/2), 7,942 men under Mg Rodt) attacked Germany (Br 56th Inf Div(1/3), 5,200 men under Mg Templer) in Italy. The CAA Database of Battles records 48 hours of fighting on a front of 0.5 km, a frontal attack against hasty defense and prepared defense, and that Germany won. Losses: Germany 34 (0%), Germany 310 (6%).

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

Germany

Mg Rodt

Unit	Arm	Men
Germany left wing	Infantry	1,710
Germany centre	Infantry	2,281
Germany right wing	Infantry	1,710
Germany reserve	Infantry	1,425
Germany artillery (41 guns)	Artillery	615
Germany armour (40 tanks)	Armour	200
Mg Rodt	Commander	—
In this plan		7,941

Germany

Mg Templer

Unit	Arm	Men
Germany left wing	Infantry	1,061
Germany centre	Infantry	1,414
Germany right wing	Infantry	1,061
Germany reserve	Infantry	884
Germany artillery (112 guns)	Artillery	780
Mg Templer	Commander	—
In this plan		5,200

What the sources report

	Germany (attacker)	Germany (defender)
Strength, this plan	7,942	5,200
Losses, this plan	34	310

In the CAA Database of Battles

CDB90 no. 418, “Monte Camino Ii”, compiled for the US Army to study what decides battles. These are the figures a what-if engine can be calibrated against.

Fighting: 48 hours
Winner: the attacker
Terrain: Rugged, Mixed
Weather: Wet, Light precipitation, Temperate, Autumn, Temperate
Defender’s posture: Hasty defense, Prepared defense
Front width: 0.5 km (attacker), 0.5 km (defender)

Force	Strength	Losses	Horse	Guns	Plan and outcome
Germanyattacker	7,942	34	0	41	Frontal attack; Repulse; Penetration
Germanydefender	5,200	310	0	112	Defensive plan; Withdrew

Attacker’s advantages training +1 · initiative +1 · combat effectiveness +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

US Army Concepts Analysis Agency; tidy edition by Jeffrey B. Arnold, CAA Database of Battles (CDB90), no. 418 · ODC-BY-1.0Strengths, losses, front widths, hours of fighting, tactics and outcome.

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.