Consequences of a failed Operation Avalance

Operation Avalanche was a very close run affair. Kesselring had placed 16th Panzer to cover the Gulf of Salerno, and they nearly ran some units back into the drink (to the point where Mark Clark stopped unloading supply ships and prepared to rembark 5th army HQ)

Suppose Kesselring also stations the Hermann Goering Panzer Division (with its 250 AA guns) to cover the Gulf of Salerno (following its Sicily evacuation) and they combine with 16th Panzer to defeat the invasion. Lets say the Americans and British are able to evac most of the combat troops (only loosing a few thousand, mostly prisoners) but in turn lose a lot of equipment in the chaos of the defeat

What are the consequences of the failed landing?
 
In that case, not much difference; the US reinforces the British positions and pushes on from there. The Italian campaign still stalls up in the mountains. The Salerno invasion force being pushed back to there ships is not enough to swing any morale/public image problems.
 

Markus

Banned
In that case, not much difference; the US reinforces the British positions and pushes on from there. The Italian campaign still stalls up in the mountains. The Salerno invasion force being pushed back to there ships is not enough to swing any morale/public image problems.

But it could get Mark Clark fired, couldn´t it? If so and if his replacement coordinates the US actions with the one of the UK forces, the allies as a whole will do better than IOTL.
 

Larrikin

Banned
But it could get Mark Clark fired, couldn´t it? If so and if his replacement coordinates the US actions with the one of the UK forces, the allies as a whole will do better than IOTL.

Now that would be a very, very, good thing. Not only for the Allies as a whole, but it may well have kept a whole lot more American soldiers alive.
 
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