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
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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
- 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment
- British 2nd Special Service Brigade
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
[edit]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)
- 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)
- Barbarigo Battalion (Captain Umberto Bardelli)[c]
Notes
[edit]- ^ Designated three regiments on paper, the Force actually totalled about 2,000 men at full strength.
- ^ Autonomous unit of the RSI, but operationally depended on the 4th Parachute Division.
- ^ Autonomous unit of the RSI as it is part of the Decima Flottiglia MAS. But operationally dependent on 715th Infantry Division.
- ^ 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
[edit]- 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.