Situation Report Oct 14th 1944 Turn 68
Army Group C
Western Allied attacks on the Italian front for the most part appear to be losing there intensity, across the front line there was a lull in most sectors giving time for Axis forces to resupply and repair defences, on the Adriatic the US Naval force withdraw only to be replaced by British ships, this is still of great concern for Kurt Zeitzler and his Command.
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Volturno Sector
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On the Coast there was no major ground fighting at all allowing LXXXX ArmeeKorps troops some brief respite to restock units with ammunition and to withdraw some damaged armoured vehicles for repairs, while the constant enemy artillery barrages were absent the Allied air forces maintained there bombing efforts but even these were much smaller.
Further inland the enemy however was still active continuing to assault 14th Armee lines in the hope of making a breakthrough, two massive attacks were launched towards Capua while a number of secondary attacks took place to the north of the main assault, the enemy advance on both positions were held by determined resistence.
Biferno Sector
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In the centre Hube's Panzer troops also had a quiet week with little activity apart from the occasional bombing attacks on the units forward defences.
On the Adriatic coast 10th Armee units arrived and began to deploy behind the Port of Termoli however there appears to be no indication of any imminent seaborne invasion attempt yet.
At Termoli itself the Allies made two attempts to take the city with a combined assault on two fronts but were easily held up by the defenders, the enemy was forced back with heavy losses.
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