Cassino to the Alps - US Army Center Of Military History

FROM RIDGE TO RIDGE
promptly reinforced with the 16th SS
Panzer Grenadier and 94th Divisions from
his own corps, where those units had
been engaged defending against the
attacks of the South African armoured
division. On 15 October the two German
divisions entered the line south of
Bologna, thereby increasing to six divisions
the German forces opposing the
U.S. II Corps. When General Clark's
G-2 informed him that, in addition to
those two divisions, the 29th Panzer
Grenadier and the 90th Division were also
375
on their way from the Tenth to the
Fourteenth Army sector, the Fifth Army
commander noted despairingly in his
diary, "this seems more than we can
stand." Clark might also have added a
dictum attributed to the elder von
Moltke: no plan survives contact with
the enemy. 30
30AOK 14 1a KTB Ani. 5, 14-15 Oct 44, AOK 14,
Doc. 6592211; Clark Diary, 17 Oct 44. See also
Correlli Barnett, The Swordbearers, (New York,
1964), p. 24.