Operation Details

Mallory Major

'Mallory Major' was the US air campaign against the bridges over the Po river in northern Italy (12/15 July 1944).

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A development of 'Mallory', this was designed and implemented by Major General John K. Cannon’s US 12th AAF to interdict the German lines of communication with south-eastern France and Austria, and so prevent the Germans from moving reinforcements south to bolster the formations of Generaloberst Heinrich-Gottfried von Vietinghoff-Scheel’s 10th Army and General Joachim Lemelsen’s 14th Army as they fell back toward the 'Gotisch-Linie' defences before, respectively, the Lieutenant General Sir Oliver Leese’s British 8th Army and Lieutenant General Mark W. Clark’s US 5th Army.

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The operation destroyed 22 of the 24 bridges across the Po river.

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