Why Mark Clark Betrayed His Orders to Save the German Army
Автор: WW2 Legacy
Загружено: 2025-12-24
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On May 25th, 1944, General Lucian Truscott's VI Corps had the German 10th Army trapped—100,000 troops retreating up Highway 6 with nowhere to go if Truscott could cut the road.
Drawing on Truscott's memoirs where he describes protesting Clark's decision, Alexander's official reports criticizing the turn to Rome, and Kesselring's post-war testimony that he expected to lose his entire army, this documentary examines why Fifth Army commander Mark Clark redirected VI Corps away from the trap and toward Rome instead. The story reveals how 43,000 Anzio casualties paid to create an opportunity that existed for 48 hours before Clark chose personal glory over strategic victory—and how the Germans who escaped killed 60,000 more Allied soldiers defending the Gothic Line for the next eleven months. Clark got his photograph entering Rome on June 4th, but D-Day made his headlines irrelevant within 48 hours while Truscott never forgave the decision that let Germany's 10th Army fight another year.
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