Anzio order of battle

Italian Campaign

Invasion of Sicily Invasion of Italy Avalanche Baytown Slapstick Armistice with Italy Achse Naples Vatican bombing Volturno Line Barbara Line Bari raid Winter Line (Bernhardt Line / Cassino / Anzio Nettuno) Trasimene Line Ancona Elba Gothic Line 1945 Spring offensive

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

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

U.S VI Corps as organized during the Battle of Anzio 22 January to 31 March 1944^[1]

Major-General John P. Lucas (until February 23)

Major-General Lucian K. Truscott (from February 23)

Deputy commander: Major-General Lucian K. Truscott (from 16 February to February 23)

Deputy commander: Major-General Vyvyan Evelegh (from 16 February to 18 March)

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)

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)

Axis forces and organization

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)^[2]^[3]
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)

Sources

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". Retrieved 2007-07-23.

Notes

↑ Nafziger, George. [cgsc.edu/CARL/nafziger/944UAMB.pdf "US VI Corps Invasion of Anzio 22 January to 31 March 1944"] Check |url= value (help) (PDF). U.S Army Combined Arms Research Library. Retrieved 14 January 2016.
↑ La Vizzera, Gianfranco. "Decima MAS:Leggenda della RSI. Il Battaglione Barbarigo". Storia del XX Secolo (in Italian) (#2, June 1995). Retrieved 5 May 2009.
↑ Villoresi, Luca. "Barbarigo Teschi e memorie". La Repubblica, Culture section (in Italian) (3 June 1994): 35. Retrieved 24 April 2009.

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