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

Battle of Fioccia

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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 groundCentreCentreLeft wingRight wingReserveLeft wingRight wingGunsReserveGunsArmourArmour02 km4 kmN

Germany (Ger 114th Lt Inf Div(+), 15,637 men under Lg Bourquin) attacked USA (US 45th Inf Div, 19,613 men under Mg Eagles) in Italy. The CAA Database of Battles records 48 hours of fighting on a front of 8 km, a frontal attack against fortified defense, and that USA held. Losses: Germany 265 (2%), USA 403 (2%).

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

Lg Bourquin

UnitArmMen
Germany left wingInfantry3,136
Germany centreInfantry4,181
Germany right wingInfantry3,136
Germany reserveInfantry2,613
Germany artillery (164 guns)Artillery2,346
Germany armour (45 tanks)Armour225
Lg BourquinCommander—
In this plan15,637

USA

Mg Eagles

UnitArmMen
USA left wingInfantry3,907
USA centreInfantry5,209
USA right wingInfantry3,907
USA reserveInfantry3,256
USA artillery (187 guns)Artillery2,805
USA armour (106 tanks)Armour530
Mg EaglesCommander—
In this plan19,614

What the sources report

GermanyUSA
Strength, this plan15,63719,613
Losses, this plan265403

In the CAA Database of Battles

CDB90 no. 433, “Fioccia”, 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 defender
Terrain
Rolling, Mixed
Weather
Wet, Light precipitation, Temperate, Winter, Temperate
Defender’s posture
Fortified defense
Front width
8 km (attacker), 8 km (defender)
ForceStrengthLossesHorseGunsPlan and outcome
Germanyattacker15,6372650164Frontal attack; Repulse; Withdrew
USAdefender19,6134030187Defensive plan

Attacker’s advantages none recorded

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.