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 edit
Allied Armies in Italy edit
- C-in-C: General Sir Harold Alexander
US Fifth Army edit
Commander:
- Lieutenant-General Mark Wayne Clark
US VI Corps edit
- 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, 83rd Chemical Battalion 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) edit
- 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 edit
Commander:
German Fourteenth Army edit
- Commander: General Eberhard von Mackensen (until end May 1944, then under direct command of Kesselring)
I Parachute Corps edit
- 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)
- 114th Jäger Division (Lieutenant-General Karl Eglseer)
- 4th Parachute Division (Major-General Heinrich Trettner)
German LXXVI Panzer Corps edit
- 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 edit
- Captain Junio Valerio Borghese[3]
- Barbarigo Battalion (Captain Umberto Bardelli)
Notes edit
- ^ 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.
- ^ Designated regiments on paper, the Force actually totalled about 2,000 men at full strength.
- ^ The RSI's Decima Flottiglia MAS units in Anzio as a whole was under the command of Borghese.As the German High Command in Italy let Borghese build a personal army to fight for the Italian Social Republic. However at the Anzio front, the Barbarigo Battalion was put under the tactical command of the German 715th Infantry Division.
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.