Anzio order of battle

Anzio order of battle is a listing of the significant formations that were involved in the fighting for the Anzio bridgehead south of Rome, January 1944 – June 1944

Allied forces and organization

Allied Armies in Italy

C-in-C: General Sir Harold Alexander

US Fifth Army

Commander:

Lieutenant-General Mark Wayne Clark
US VI Corps
US VI Corps as organized during the Battle of Anzio 22 January to 31 March 1944[1]
Major-General John P. Lucas (until February 23)
Major-General Lucian K. Truscott (from February 23)
Deputy commander: Major-General Lucian K.Truscottt (from 16 February to February 23)
Deputy commander: Major-General Vyvyan Evelegh (from 16 February to 18 March)
U.S. II Corps (from 25 May 1944)
Major-General Geoffrey Keyes

Axis forces and organization

Army Group C

Commander:

Generalfeldmarschall Albert Kesselring

German Fourteenth Army

Commander: General Eberhard von Mackensen (until end May 1944, then under direct command of Kesselring)
I Parachute Corps
General Alfred Schlemm
German LXXVI Panzer Corps
General Traugott Herr

Notes

  1. Nafziger, George. "US VI Corps Invasion of Anzio 22 January to 31 March 1944" (PDF). U.S. Army Combined Arms Research Library. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 August 2016. Retrieved 4 August 2016.
  2. Designated regiments on paper, the Force actually totalled about 2,000 men at full strength.
  3. La Vizzera, Gianfranco. "Decima MAS:Leggenda della RSI. Il Battaglione Barbarigo". Storia del XX Secolo (in Italian) (#2, June 1995). Archived from the original on 29 March 2010. Retrieved 5 May 2009.
  4. Villoresi, Luca. "Barbarigo Teschi e memorie". La Repubblica, Culture Section (in Italian) (3 June 1994): 35. Retrieved 24 April 2009.

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