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In February 1940, the 8th Army was formed and based in Northern Italy. It was disbanded on 31 October 1940. It was recreated in July 1942, when the Italian Expeditionary Corps in Russia was expanded by Mussolini and named Armata Italiana in Russia (ARMIR). For further details see :
The invasion of mainland Italy started with the British 8th Army landing at Taranto on 3 rd September 1943 and an operation named “Baytown”. As a matter of interest, the US 5th Army landed on the 9 th September 1943 against heavy German resistance at Salerno in operation “Avalanche”. The 8th Army were able to make relatively easy ...
May 26, 2018 · 8th Army skivers and their tanks, We go to war, in ties and slacks, We are the D-Day Dodgers, in sunny Italy. We fought into Agira, a holiday with pay, Jerry brought his bands out to cheer us on ...
The 8th Italian Army was also known as the Italian Army in Russia (ARMIR). The ARMIR was subordinated to German General Maximilian von Weichs ' Army Group B. His justifications were the Italian duty to fight Soviet Bolshevism and the requests by his German allies for additional forces, Operation Barbarossa having been longer and costlier than they expected.
- August 1941-20 January 1943 [1]
- Soviet victory
January 1 Almost complete calm over the entire front in Italy. General Sir Richard McCreery’s Eighth Army is dug in along the Senio and General Lucien K. Truscott’s Fifth Army is ten miles from Bologna. General Heinrich von Vietinghoff uses this time to regroup and replenish the German Tenth and Fourteenth Armies.
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The retreat of the defeated ARMIR from the Don westwards recalled the flight of Napoleon's Grande Armée from Russia in 1812. ... the Italian 8th Army lost more than 114,000 men killed, captured ...
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The three corps formed the Italian Eighth Army. Chief of Staff Cavallero passed over Messe and selected Army General Italo Gariboldi to command the 8th Army. According to Prieskop, “Messe had made the mistake of being too successful and becoming too popular with Mussolini, the Italian people, and his troops, thus incurring the jealously of his superior.”
