User:Hungrydog55/sandbox/military/1944-01 Anzio oob
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 dputy commanderfrom 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)
- Nembo Independent Paratroopers Battalion (Captain Corradino Alvino)[b]
- Arditi Paratroopers Regiment "Folgore" (Lieutenant-Colonel Edvino Dalmas)
- 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]
- ^ 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.
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