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)

• 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)
• British 56th Infantry Division (Major-General Gerald Templer) (from mid- February 1944 until mid-March 1944)
• 34th Infantry Division (Major-General Charles W. Ryder) (from March 1944)
• 36th Infantry Division (Major-General Fred L. Walker) (from April 1944)
• British 5th Infantry Division (Major-General Philip Gregson-Ellis) (from March 1944)

• US-Canadian First Special Service Force (3 regiments; from early February)^[2]
• 6615th Ranger Force (1st, 3rd and 4th battalions, and U.S. 509th Parachute Infantry Battalion)
• 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment
• British 2nd Special Service Brigade (9 and 43 British Commandos)

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

Major-General Geoffrey Keyes

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

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

• 4th Parachute Division (Major-General Heinrich Trettner)
  • "Nembo" Battalion from RSI Parachute Regiment "Folgore" (Italian Social Republic) (Captain Corradino Alvino)
• 29th Panzergrenadier Division (Lieutenant-General Walter Fries)
• 65th Infantry Division (Major-General Hellmuth Pfeifer)
• 715th Infantry Division (Major-General )
  • "Barbarigo" Battalion from Decima Flottiglia MAS (Italian Social Republic) (Captain )^[3][4]
• 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 )

Sources[]

• 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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