Generalfeldmarschall Albert Kesselring (left, Oberbefehlshaber Süd) and Generaloberst Heinrich von Vietinghoff (Oberbefehlshaber 10. Armee) in the car on the Italian front. The picture was taken by Kriegsberichter Lüthge (Propaganda-Kompanie 699) in September 1943. At the Battle of Salerno in September 1943, Kesselring launched a full-scale counterattack against the US Fifth Army landings there with Generaloberst Vietinghoff's Tenth Army. The counterattack inflicted heavy casualties on the Allies, forced them back in several areas, and, for a time, made Allied commanders contemplate evacuation. The short distance from German airfields allowed Luftflotte 2 to put 120 aircraft over the Salerno area on 11 September 1943. The German offensive ultimately failed to throw the Allies back into the sea because of the intervention of Allied naval gunfire which decimated the advancing German units, stubborn Allied resistance and the advance of the British Eighth Army. On 17 September 1943, Kesselring gave Vietinghoff permission to break off the attack and withdraw.
Generalfeldmarschall Albert Kesselring (left, Oberbefehlshaber Süd) and Generaloberst Heinrich von Vietinghoff (Oberbefehlshaber 10. Armee) walk down the stairs after the end of war conference in Italy. The picture was taken by Kriegsberichter Lüthge (Propaganda-Kompanie 699) in September 1943.
Source :
https://audiovis.nac.gov.pl/obraz/1480/
https://digilander.libero.it/lacorsainfinita/guerra2/personaggi/kesselring.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Kesselring
