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Schematic plan · World War II (Italy 1944)

Battle of Fosso di Campoleone

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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 groundCentreLeft wingRight wingReserveCentreLeft wingRight wingReserveGunsGunsArmourArmour02 km4 kmN

USA (US 1st Armd Div & 45th Inf Div(+), 29,711 men under Mg Harmon) attacked Germany (Ger 3rd Pz Gr Div(1/2)(+), 15,801 men under Mg Baade) in Italy. The CAA Database of Battles records 48 hours of fighting on a front of 11 km, a frontal attack against fortified defense, and that Germany held. Losses: USA 1,304 (4%), Germany 1,379 (9%).

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 Harmon

UnitArmMen
USA left wingInfantry6,268
USA centreInfantry8,357
USA right wingInfantry6,268
USA reserveInfantry5,223
USA artillery (146 guns)Artillery2,190
USA armour (281 tanks)Armour1,405
Mg HarmonCommander—
In this plan29,711

Germany

Mg Baade

UnitArmMen
Germany left wingInfantry3,251
Germany centreInfantry4,335
Germany right wingInfantry3,251
Germany reserveInfantry2,709
Germany artillery (117 guns)Artillery1,755
Germany armour (100 tanks)Armour500
Mg BaadeCommander—
In this plan15,801

What the sources report

USAGermany
Strength, this plan29,71115,801
Losses, this plan1,3041,379

In the CAA Database of Battles

CDB90 no. 451, “Fosso Di Campoleone”, 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
Dry, Sunny, Temperate, Spring, Temperate
Defender’s posture
Fortified defense
Front width
11 km (attacker), 11 km (defender)
ForceStrengthLossesHorseGunsPlan and outcome
USAattacker29,7111,3040146Frontal attack; Penetration; Repulse; Stalemate
Germanydefender15,8011,3790117Defensive/offensive plan; Frontal attack; Penetration; Stalemate

Attacker’s advantages initiative +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.