Commandos and Rangers of World War II by James D. Ladd

Author:James D. Ladd [Ladd, James D.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lume Books
Published: 2020-07-15T22:00:00+00:00

The Germans were also having supply problems in the Salerno area. The XIV Panzer Corps had started the battle with seven ‘units of fuel’, a unit probably being enough for 50 or fewer miles in their worn vehicles over hilly country. Of the Corps’ 4,074 vehicles, including 455 armoured tanks and self-propelled guns, over 10 per cent had been lost by 15 September. In battling up and across these Salerno hills, in attacking the Ranger stronghold that was never held by more than a few thousand men, although the Germans thought there was a division with two or three times this strength apparently, the German Panzer strength was weakened. They never dislodged the Rangers who, 13 days after they landed, moved on 22 September through the Sals-Chinnzi pass towards Naples.

The British Eighth Army, with their share of supply difficulties, reached the Salerno beachhead a week after the landings (16 September), having come over 200 miles (300 + km) from Reggio with only minor losses—635 out of 63,663.

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