User:Hungrydog55/sandbox/military/mediterranean/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 Armies in Italy edit
General Sir Harold Alexander, BA
US Fifth Army edit
Lieutenant General Mark Wayne Clark, USA
US VI Corps edit
Major General John P. Lucas, USA (to 23 Feb)
Major SGeneral Lucian K. Truscott, USA (from 23 Feb)
- Deputy commander: Major General Lucian K. Truscott, USA (16 Feb to 23 Feb)
- Deputy commander: Major-General Vyvyan Evelegh, BA (16 Feb to 18 Mar)
3rd Infantry ("Rock of the Marne") Division (Major-General Lucian K. Truscott thru 23 Feb then Brigadier John W. O'Daniel until 25 May 1944)
British 1st Infantry Division (Major-General Ronald Penney)
45th Infantry ("Thunderbird") Division (Major-General William W. Eagles)
1st Armored ("Old Ironsides") Division (Major-General Ernest N. Harmon)- British 56th Infantry Division (Major-General Gerald Templer) (from mid- February 1944 until mid-March 1944)
34th Infantry ("Red Bull") Division (Major-General Charles W. Ryder) (from March 1944)
36th Infantry ("Arrowhead") Division (Major-General Fred L. Walker) (from April 1944)- British 5th Infantry Division (Major-General Philip Gregson-Ellis) (from March 1944)
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- 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)
German Army Group C edit
Generalfeldmarschall Albert Kesselring
German Fourteenth Army edit
General Eberhard von Mackensen[a]
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)
- "Barbarigo" Battalion from Decima Flottiglia MAS (Italian Social Republic) (Captain Umberto Bardelli)[3][4]
- 114th Jäger Division (Lieutenant-General Karl Eglseer)
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)
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.
- ^ La Vizzera, Gianfranco. "Decima MAS:Leggenda della RSI. Il Battaglione Barbarigo". Storia del XX Secolo (in Italian) (#2, June 1995). Archived from the original on 29 March 2010. Retrieved 5 May 2009.
- ^ Villoresi, Luca. "Barbarigo Teschi e memorie". La Repubblica, Culture Section (in Italian) (3 June 1994): 35. Retrieved 24 April 2009.
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.
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