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
  • 1st Ranger Battalion
  • 3rd Ranger Battalion
  • 4th Ranger Battalion
  • 83rd Chemical Battalion
  • U.S. 509th Parachute Infantry Battalion)
• 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)
• Autonomous Paratroopers Battalion "Nembo" (Captain Corradino Alvino)^[b]
• 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

1. Designated three regiments on paper, the Force actually totalled about 2,000 men at full strength.
2. Autonomous unit of the RSI, but operationally depended on the 4th Parachute Division.
3. 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.

Sources

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• Wendell, Marcus. "Axis History Factbook: German army order of battle". Archived from the original on 2006-10-29. Retrieved 2007-07-23.