Anzio order of battle

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Italian Campaign

Invasion of Sicily

* Corkscrew
* Mincemeat
* Barclay
* Animals
* Chestnut
* Narcissus
* Fustian
* Ladbroke
* Gela
* Troina
* Centuripe

Invasion of Italy

* Baytown
* Avalanche
* Slapstick
* Armistice with Italy
* Achse
* Naples
* Devon
* Vatican bombing
* Volturno Line
* Barbara Line
* Bari raid

Winter Line

* Bernhardt Line
* Monte la Difensa
* San Pietro
* Moro
* Ortona
* Rapido
* Monte Cassino
* Anzio
* Cisterna
* Diadem
* Strangle
* Chesterfield
* Trasimene Line
* Ancona
* Elba

Gothic Line

* Rimini
* San Marino
* Gemmano
* Monte Castello
* Garfagnana

1945 Spring Offensive

* Encore
* Tombola
* Bowler
* Roast
* Bologna
* Argenta Gap
* Herring
* Collecchio
* Trieste

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Italian Civil War

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

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US VI Corps as organized during the Battle of Anzio 22 January to 31 March 1944[1]

Cpmmander-in-Chief of Allied Armies in Italy was General Sir Harold Alexander

US Fifth Army, commanded by Lieutenant-General Mark Wayne Clark, committed two corps reinforced with divisions of British X Corps

US VI Corps
Commanded by Major-General John P. Lucas until February 23, then Major-General Lucian K. Truscott. Truscottt was deputy commander from 16 February to February 23. Major-General Vyvyan Evelegh became deputy commander from 16 February to 18 March

* 3rd Infantry Division (Major-General Lucian K. Truscott until February 23 then Brigadier John W. O'Daniel) until 25 May 1944
* British 1st Infantry Division (Major-General Ronald Penney)
* 45th Infantry Division (Major-General William W. Eagles)
* 1st Armored Division (Major-General Ernest N. Harmon)
* 34th Infantry Division (Major-General Charles W. Ryder) (from March 1944)
* 36th Infantry Division (Major-General Fred L. Walker) (from April 1944)

British X Corps

* British 5th Infantry Division (Major-General Philip Gregson-Ellis) (from March 1944)
* British 56th Infantry Division (Major-General Gerald Templer) (from mid- February 1944 until mid-March 1944)
* US-Canadian First Special Service Force (from early February, replacing the Ranger battalions)[a]
* 6615th Ranger Force
* 1st Ranger Battalion
* 3rd Ranger Battalion
* 4th Ranger Battalion
* 83rd Chemical Battalion
* U.S. 509th Parachute Infantry Battalion)
* 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment
* British 2nd Special Service Brigade
* No 9 Army Commando
* No. 40 (Royal Marine) Commando

U.S. II Corps (from 25 May 1944)

Major-General Geoffrey Keyes

* 88th Infantry Division (Major-General John E. Sloan)
* 85th Infantry Division (Major-General John B. Coulter)
* 3rd Infantry Division (Brigadier John W. O'Daniel)

## Axis forces and organization

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Army Group C commanded by Generalfeldmarschall Albert Kesselring

German Fourteenth Army

General Eberhard von Mackensen (until end May 1944, then under direct command of Kesselring)

I Parachute Corps (General Alfred Schlemm)

* 4th Parachute Division (Major-General Heinrich Trettner)
* Autonomous Paratroopers Battalion "Nembo" (Captain Corradino Alvino)[b]
* 29th Panzergrenadier Division (Lieutenant-General Walter Fries)
* 65th Infantry Division (Major-General Hellmuth Pfeifer)
* 715th Infantry Division (Major-General Hans-Georg Hildebrandt)
* Barbarigo Battalion (Captain Umberto Bardelli)[c]
* 114th Jäger Division (Lieutenant-General Karl Eglseer)

German LXXVI Panzer Corps (General Traugott Herr)

* 3rd Panzergrenadier Division (Lieutenant-General Fritz-Hubert Gräser)
* 26th Panzer Division (Lieutenant-General Smilo Freiherr von Lüttwitz)
* Hermann Göring Panzer Division (Major-General Paul Conrath)
* 362nd Infantry Division (Major-General Heinz Greiner)
* 71st Infantry Division (Lieutenant-General Wilhelm Raapke)

Decima Flottiglia MAS (Captain Junio Valerio Borghese)

* 10th Marine Infantry Division (General Giuseppe Corrado)[d]

## Notes

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1. ^ Designated three regiments on paper, the Force actually totalled about 2,000 men at full strength.
2. ^ Autonomous unit of the RSI, but operationally depended on the 4th Parachute Division.
3. ^ Attached to the 10th Marine Infantry Division from May 1944.
4. ^ Formed from May 1944

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.

## Sources

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* Clark, Lloyd (2006). Anzio: The Friction of War. Italy and the Battle for Rome 1944. London: Headline Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-7553-1420-1.
* "Orders of Battle.com". Archived from the original on 17 July 2007. Retrieved 2007-07-23.
* Houterman, Hans; Koppes, Jeroen. "World War II unit histories and officers". Archived from the original on 26 June 2007. Retrieved 2007-07-23.
* Wendell, Marcus. "Axis History Factbook: German army order of battle". Archived from the original on 2006-10-29. Retrieved 2007-07-23.

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