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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

Contents

Allied Armies in Italy

C-in-C: General Sir Harold Alexander

U.S. Fifth Army

Commander:

Lieutenant-General Mark Wayne Clark
U.S. VI Corps
Major-General John P. Lucas (until February 23)Major-General Lucian K. Truscott (from February 23)
  • U.S. 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 William R. C. Penney)
  • U.S. 45th Infantry Division (Major-General William W. Eagles)
  • U.S. 1st Armored Division (Major-General Ernest N. Harmon)
  • British 56th Infantry Division (Major-General Gerald Templer) (from mid- February 1944 until mid-March 1944)
  • U.S. 34th Infantry Division (Major-General Charles W. Ryder) (from March 1944)
  • U.S. 36th Infantry Division (Major-General Fred Walker) (from April 1944)
  • British 5th Infantry Division (Major-General Philip G.S. Gregson-Ellis) from March 1944)
  • US-Canadian First Special Service Force (3 regiments; from early February)
  • 6615th Ranger Force (1st, 3rd and 4th battalions, 83rd Chemical Battalion and U.S. 509th Parachute Infantry Battalion)
  • U.S. 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
  • U.S. 88th Infantry Division (Major-General John E. Sloan
  • U.S. 85th Infantry Division (Major-General John B. Coulter)
  • U.S. 3rd Infantry Division (Brigadier John W. O'Daniel)
  • 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 Hans-Georg Hildebrandt)
  • "Barbarigo" Battalion from Decima Flottiglia MAS (Italian Social Republic) (Captain Umberto Bardelli)
  • 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)
  • References

    Anzio order of battle Wikipedia


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