"Salvos at San Salvo with BG: Italy" Topic

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Tango01

24 Dec 2024 3:57 p.m. PST

"This was 1,000 point historical re-fight of the the 6th Inniskilling Fusilier's (with 46th RTR Sherman support) assault on the village of San Salvo, part of their breakout from the small Trigno river bridgehead which the Irish Brigade (of 78th Infantry Division) had won in late October 1943, during the initial advance up the Italian eastern coast. On Nov 3rd, they launched a dawn attack towards the high-ground, station and village, held by elements of 16th Panzer Division, and the after action report mentions encountering quiet a bit of enemy armour (46th RTR reported to have encounter 12 tanks, photo evidence has these as mixed StuGs and Pz IVs). 16th Pz was in a weakened state following heavy losses fighting against the Salerno landings before withdrawing. Post San Salvo, the division would not be much longer for the Italian theatre, being withdraw, refitted and sent to Eastern Front. Oddly. the Luftwaffe even showed up and bombed the Inniskillings… a very rare occurrence, we assumed this to be a Bf-109 airstrike… the report didn't say (of course, it's unlikely to identify what type of aircraft from the ground, but it doesn't say dive-bombed either, and there were very few Stukas left in Italy by then)…"