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Battle of Rimini (1944)
Battle during the Italian Campaign of the Second World War / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the battle to capture the town of Rimini in September 1944. For the use of the name as an alternative to Operation Olive, the wide offensive of 15th Army Group in Italy on the Gothic Line, see Gothic Line.
The Battle of Rimini took place between 13 and 21 September 1944 during Operation Olive, the main Allied offensive on the Gothic Line in August and September 1944, part of the Italian Campaign in the Second World War. Rimini, a city on Italy's Adriatic coast, anchored the Rimini Line, a German defensive line which was the third such line of the Gothic Line defences.
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Rimini, which had been hit previously by 373 air raids, had 1,470,000 rounds fired against it by Allied land forces; by the end of the battle, only 2% of all buildings in the city escaped damage.[1]