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Battle of Authion
| Battle of Authion | |||||||
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| Part of Second Battle of the Alps | |||||||
 The Redoute des Trois Communes in 2005, showing battle damage | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
 Theo-Helmut Lieb Tito Agosti |
 Pierre Garbay | ||||||
| Units involved | |||||||
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| Strength | |||||||
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Germany: 5,200 men Italy: 4,800[2] |
16,000 unknown number of planes, tanks and artillery | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
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Germany: 120 killed 480 wounded 242 captured Italy: 5 killed 155 captured[3] |
280 killed 1,000 wounded[4] | ||||||
The Battle of Authion was a military engagement that took place towards the end of World War II, shortly before the defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945. Units of the French Army were sent to the French Alps to clear an important route from central France to Italy. A critical choke point was the 2,080 metre (6,820 feet) high Authion massif, held by determined but weakened German and Italian forces.
Field Marshal Harold Alexander authorised the assault on Authion on 10 April 1945.
- ^ Bataille de l'Authion, francaislibres.net, retrieved 17 November 2015
- ^ Riccioli, Jean-Louis. "La deuxième bataille des Alpes : printemps 1945", Cahiers de la Méditerranée 52 (1996), pp. 93–118.
- ^ Pierre-Emmanuel Klingbeil " Aspect stratégique de la bataille ", retrieved 11 November 2018
- ^ Authion Fortifications, exploguide.com, archived from the original on 18 November 2015, retrieved 17 November 2015
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