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

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

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
- No 9 Army Commando
- No. 40 (Royal Marine) Commando

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

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]

Notes

^ 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

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.

[2] Designated three regiments on paper, the Force actually totalled about 2,000 men at full strength.

[3] Autonomous unit of the RSI, but operationally depended on the 4th Parachute Division.

[4] Autonomous unit of the RSI as it is part of the Decima Flottiglia MAS. But operationally dependent on 715th Infantry Division.

[1] 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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