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| Italian spring offensive | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Part of the Greco-Italian War | |||||||
 The Italian spring offensive (red arrows) | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 Italy |
 Greece | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
|
Ugo Cavallero Carlo Geloso |
Alexander Papagos Georgios Lavdas Georgios Grivas | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| 9 divisions | 6 divisions | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| 24,000+[1] |
1,243 killed 42 missing 4,016 wounded [2] | ||||||
The Italian spring offensive, also known as Operazione Primavera (Operation Spring), was an offensive of the Greco-Italian War that lasted from 9 to 16 March 1941. The offensive was the last Italian attempt of the war to defeat the Greek forces, which had already advanced deep into Italian-controlled Albania.[3] The opening of the offensive was supervised by the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini but ended a week later in complete failure.[4][5][6]
- ^ Brewer, David (28 February 2015). Greece, the Decade of War: Occupation, Resistance and Civil War. I.B.Tauris & Co. Ltd. p. 13. ISBN 9781780768540.
- ^ Κωνσταντίνος Πολυζώης κ.ά., Επίτομη Ιστορία του Ελληνοϊταλικού και Ελληνογερμανικού Πολέμου 1940–1941 (Αθήνα: Διεύθυνση Ιστορίας Στρατού - ΔΙΣ, 1985), σελ.142
- ^ Zapantis 1982, pp. 428–584.
- ^ Keegan & Mayer 1977, p. 600.
- ^ Electris & Lindsay 2008, p. 187.
- ^ Zapantis 1987, p. 54.