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 I A.PAP* 0. 469 Army
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SUBJBCT: History of Operations, Mont oSp.:

1. Preparatory to the operations undertaken by the Divi-

sion and its component units during the month of September, 1943,
six different missions were prepare&dIn detail by the Division
Staff, only two of which were destined to be put in execution.
These two were a Jump by the 509th Parachute Infantry Battalion
in the vicinity of AVELLINO on the night of September 14 and Jumps
by the 504th and 505th Combat Teams on the nights of September 13
and 14 on the beaches south of the SELE River as reinforcement for
the VI Corps. Although the Division Staff participated in the
planning of these operations, the combat teams undertaking them
pissed to Army or VI Corps control on their take-off and the his-
tory of their subsequent maneuvers is therefore the history of
the units themselves and of the Army or Corps of which they were
at that time a part. Likewise the 325th Combat Team (including
3rd Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry), which cleared -LICATA,
SICILY September 13 for a seaborne movement to AVALANCHE began its
Italian operations under control other than that of the 82d Airborne
Division Command.
2. Division Headquarters and detachments of Division Spe-
cial Troops air-landed in the PAE6TUM Area September 18 and the
504th and 505th Combat Teams were brought under Division control
after they were withdrawn from actual combat operations in the vi- <
cinity of ALBANELLA and ALTAVILLA, ITALY. Thereafter, for several
days the Division Command, through these two combat teams, under-
took patrol activities in the vicinity of HOCCADASPIDE and CASTEL-
CIVITA, while the 3E5th Combat Team was being actively engaged on
the SORRENTO Peninsula as an element of the Ranger Force.
3. Movement of the main body of the Division from the vi-
cinity of CASTELCIVITA to the SORRtHNTO Peninsula was begun Sep-
tember 26 and the Division CP opened at MAORI on that date and im-
mediately took command of a task force on the peninsula, consist-
ing principally of what had been the Hanger Force already operat-
ing there and the divisional parachute elements newly brought from
CASTELCIVITA. Lt. Col. Darby was placed In command of the East
Force under the Division Commander, with headquarters at MAORI,

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and Col. James M. Gavin, in conand of the West Force, in the

AGEROLA Area. The Division CP was moved s AMAIP
A September 27
That night a general advance was begun, with the main efort
through CHIUNZI Pass in the East, and a supporting effort throui
the AfEROLA--ORAGNANO tunnel in the West. he advance was ligt-
ly opposed and entirely successful, the first troo- debouching
into the SARNO Plain early the following mornin. From the 28th
to the 30th the entire "-r j3 cry*ve:g- r Cg l, UWEM
and con-
centrated in that vicinlr; t On th 3ltlthEthe 3d 3t talion, 505th
Parachute Infantry, led Ih' r f:tnc l: r:'ch, Isaa n F Lghway routes
as far as TORRE ANNUNZI Aj, .^s
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into the city of NAPLES the following day.

List of Appendiceas

1. G-1 Journal
Awards rand citations in Italian Campaign (attached).
Table .f Casualties in Italian Campaign (attached).
2. G-2 Jouinal.
3. G-?: Journal.
4. G-4$ uournal.
5. :52th Gli ier Infantry History, Journal and Supporting Documents.
6, 5s4th Parachute Infntry History, Etc.
'1* O55th PFrachute Infantry History, Etc.
8. .;19th Glider Field Artillory Battalion History, Etc.
9. 80th Airborne Anti-aircrn;t Battalion History, Etc.
iJ. 307th Airborne zngineer Battalion History, Etc.
1;. .cO'th Airborne Medical Compnny History, itc.
1?. 8;zd Airborne Signal Company, History, 'tc.