Talk:Operation Shingle

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Might it be good to include some reference to the end of the operation?

Yes. I am puzzled because, strictly speaking, "Operation Shingle" is merely the initial landing and consolidation. Yet there is no real article on the full Battle of Anzio, despite its importance to the Italian campaign and its (slight, but not zero) influence on the Normandy campaign.

References to "battle of Anzio" elsewhere redirect to this article. It's good as far as it goes.

Maybe there should be a Battle of Anzio article that incoroporates this?

DMorpheus 17:37, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

This article is a mix of info about Operation Shingle (the landings) plus casualty figures for the entire battle of Anzio that follows. The actual Shingle casualties were only a few dozen - naval forces lost more men than the ground forces. I suggest this be re-cast as the Battle of Anzio, with Operation Shingle as one part.

[edit] A battalion of the Italian Social Republic (RSI) in Anzio

In Anzio (beginning from March 3, 1944) fought the battalion "Barbarigo" of the Italian Social Republic: 1,180 soldiers. More than 563 were the Fallen of this unit. Near Nettuno there is a Cemetery for the Fallen. On June 1-4 1944, at Castel di Decima (Rome), fought the parachute regiment "Folgore" (1,500 men)of the RSI to protect the German disengagement.

[edit] Angelita myth?

* Angelita was the name of a little girl, a war orphan abandoned child, found by soldier Christopher S. Hayes of Royal Scots Fusilers. She became the platoon mascott, but few days after a grenade killed her. Anzio's people erected a monument in Angelita's memory, unveiled in the International Year of the Child (1979).

According to D'Este this story is a myth. The trooper who 'found' the girl was not in Anzio at the time and the rest of the Regiment had no knowledge of the incident. I am not sure if the memorial exists or not but the story is bogus according to D'Este's Fatal Decision: Anzio and the Battle for Rome. DMorpheus 21:16, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

• The Angelita's memorial bronze statue exists, it is possible to see in Anzio, almost directly on the beach. It stands in memory not of a myth but of children victims of wars.

Luiclemens 21:15 29 November 2006