Italian spring offensive
| 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 | |||||||
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Ugo Cavallero Carlo Geloso |
Alexander Papagos Georgios Lavdas Georgios Grivas | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| 9 divisions | 6 divisions | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| 24,000+ |
1,243 killed 42 missing 4,016 wounded | ||||||
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. The opening of the offensive was supervised by the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini but ended a week later in complete failure.