| Second Battle of the Alps | |||||||||
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| Part of the Western Front of World War II | |||||||||
 Stuart tank preserved as memorial to the Battle of Authion | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
 France United States Italian Resistance | |||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
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Jacob L. Devers Paul-André Doyen |
 Rodolfo Graziani Hans Schlemmer | ||||||||
| Strength | |||||||||
| 40,000 men[2] |
4 divisions (2 Italian, 2 German)[3] | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
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2,287 casualties: 393 killed 1,730 wounded 164 missing or captured[2] |
1,453 casualties: 800 killed or wounded 653 captured[4] | ||||||||
The Second Battle of the Alps (French: deuxième bataille des Alpes; Italian: seconda battaglia delle Alpi) was a military campaign fought between combined German and Italian Social Republic forces, and the re-established French Republic led by Charles de Gaulle and other Allied forces.[4]
- ^ Direct Democracy (12 October 1947). "Tenda und Briga (Tende et la Brigue, Frankreich), 12. Oktober 1947 : Anschluss an Frankreich" (in German).
- ^ a b Klingbeil 2005, p. 383.
- ^ Klingbeil 2005, p. 380.
- ^ a b Riccioli 1996.