![]() ![]() ![]() Heinrich von Vietinghoff returned from the Baltic to take over from Kesselring and Traugott Herr, the experienced commander of the LXXVI Panzer Corps, took over the 10th Army. On March 23, Albert Kesselring was appointed Commander-in-Chief West, replacing General-Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt. VI Corps from the Battle of Anzio and the capture of Rome to Alsace, landed in the South of France during Operation Dragoon and returned to Italy to assume command of the Fifth Army. Lieutenant General Lucian Truscott, the commander of the U.S. Clark succeeded Alexander as commander of the Allied forces in Italy (renamed 15th Army Group), but without promotion. General Harold Alexander, having been promoted to Field Marshal, replaced Wilson as Allied Supreme Commander Mediterranean on December 12. When Field Marshal Sir John Dill, the head of the British Mission in Washington, D.C., died on November 5, Field Marshal Sir Henry Maitland Wilson was appointed his replacement. The Allied forward formations spent the rest of the winter of 1944 in inhospitable conditions while preparations were being made for a spring offensive in 1945. Although they managed to breach the formidable Gothic Line defenses, the Allies failed to break into the Po Valley before the winter weather made further attempts impossible. Fifth Army ( Lieutenant General Mark Clark) attacking through the central Apennine Mountains. The Allies had launched their last big offensive on the Gothic Line in August 1944, with the British Eighth Army ( Lieutenant-General Oliver Leese) attacking up the coastal plain of the Adriatic and the U.S. The attack in the Lombard Plain by the 15th Allied Army Group started on Apand ended on May 2 with the surrender of German forces in Italy. The spring 1945 offensive in Italy, codenamed Operation Grapeshot, was the final Allied attack during the Italian Campaign in the final stages of the Second World War. 91,000 lines of communication and AA troops.NBC Respirator Mask Mk I - Indian Kareta-M copy.Tuscany, Emilia-Romagna, Liguria, Piedmont, Lombardy and the Veneto regions, Northern Italy Initially intended for military use only, but then its use is expanded for civilian use too. Intended for civilian and industrial use. It is in service in Hungary, Croatia, Slovenia and possibly in many other countries. ![]() It also has a transitional thread, being able to take STANAG 4155 and GOST thread filters.ĪBC-92 - Austrian chemical suit using a probably Kareta-M mask. PG-1 - A Bulgarian private company’s copy of the M65, with a larger exhale valve/voice diaphragm. Made in several versions for: Police/Prison, Naval and Military. It uses a pale blue rubber with black plastic furniture. T62, T72, T3-75 - It's another licensed copy made by the Republic of China (Taiwan). Iraqi M85 - Is an copy of the Romanian M85 which is a licensed copy of the M65Z. M74 and M85 - Are Romanian licensed copies of the M65Z. M6-87 - Issued in Spain, very similar to the M15. But with a few more features, such as a voice diaphragm and a drinking tube on the side of the mask. M15 - This Israeli gas mask bears some resemblance, and was likely based on the M65. The mask is also very commonly seen in combination with older German charcoal lined NBC suits as well as the newer "Zodiac style" NBC suits, although today the M65Z is still being used in training it has officially been replaced by the M2000 in 1999 and is slowly being taken out of service completely. The company Dräger was contracted by the German military to produce both the M65 and M65Z. or chrome metal clamps, which can be seen around the inhale and exhale ports. The M65Z has a wire mesh that is located in the inhale and exhale assemblies, the mesh's function is to keep out dirt and any other foreign objects out of the inhale and exhale ports.īoth intake and outlet assemblies are held in place with two O.D. This flap also adds comfort to the mask when it is worn. The mask also has a 3mm wide rubber peripheral seal which surrounds the entirety of the facepiece to form a better seal around the wearer's face. plastic that matches the color of the mask's facepiece, and the oral-nasal cup of the mask is made of the same rubber as the facepiece. The inhale and exhale valve assemblies are constructed of an O.D. The exhale valve with 19 holes which air passes through them upon exhalation. Upon inhaling, air passes under the chin through two inlet valves so that the lenses don't get fogged up. This mask's intake valve assembly uses NATO 40mm filter and is compatible with all NATO compliant-filters. Sizes are 1 (large), 2(medium) 3 (small). The mask uses an all rubber 5-point head harness.įacepieces would be sized and embossed with a large letter on the centre of the rubber above the eye lens. The mask features two triangular eyepieces which are made of acrylic glass. ![]()
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