Operation Herring

44°58′17.0″N 11°11′58.2″E / 44.971389°N 11.199500°E / 44.971389; 11.199500

Operation Herring
Part of the Italian Campaign/Italian Civil War of World War II

Italian parachutists departing from Rosignano on 20 April 1945
Date19–23 April 1945
Location
Key Axis positions behind the Po River Valley
Result Allied victory
Belligerents
Italy
 United Kingdom
 United States		  Germany
Commanders and leaders
Captain Carlo Gay
Lieutenant Guerrino Ceiner		 Unknown
Strength
226 parachutists
1+
14 C-47s

 Germany

7,000 soldiers
200 APCs, tanks and other vehicles
Casualties and losses
Italy:
30 killed
10–12 wounded
United Kingdom:
1 killed		 481 killed
1,983 captured
44 vehicles destroyed

Operation Herring (Herring 1) was the last World War II airborne combat drop in Europe.

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