Anzio order of battle

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v • d • e Italian Campaign Invasion of Sicily – Invasion of Italy – Armistice with Italy – Volturno Line – Barbara Line – Bari Raid – Bernhardt Line – Monte Cassino – Anzio – Trasimene Line – Gothic Line – Spring offensive 1945

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

Contents 1 Allied Forces and organisation 1.1 Allied Armies in Italy 1.1.1 U.S. Fifth Army 1.1.1.1 U.S. VI Corps 1.1.1.2 U.S. II Corps (from 25 May 1944) 2 German forces and organisation 2.1 German Army Group C 2.1.1 German Fourteenth Army 2.1.1.1 German I Parachute Corps 2.1.1.2 German LXXVI Panzer Corps 3 Sources

[edit] Allied Forces and organisation

[edit] Allied Armies in Italy

C-in-C: General Sir Harold Alexander

[edit] U.S. Fifth Army

Commander:

Lieutenant-General Mark Wayne Clark

[edit] U.S. VI Corps

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 Vivian 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 Willian W. Engles)
• 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)
• 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 Commando)

[edit] 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)

[edit] German forces and organisation

[edit] German Army Group C

Commander:

Generalfeldmarschall Albert Kesselring

[edit] German Fourteenth Army

Commander: General Eberhard von Mackensen (until end May 1944, then under direct command of Kesselring)

[edit] German I Parachute Corps

General Alfred Schlemm

• German 4th Parachute Division (Major-General Heinrich Trettner)
• German 29th Panzergrenadier Division (Lieutenant-General Walter Fries)
• German 65th Infantry Division (Major-General Helmuth Pfeiffer)
• German 715th Infantry Division (Major-General Hans-Georg Hildebrandt)
• German 114th Jäger Division (lieutenant-General Karl Eglseer)

[edit] German LXXVI Panzer Corps

General Traugott Herr

• 3rd Panzergrenadier Division (Lieutenant-General Fritz-Hubert Gräser)
• German 26th Panzer Division (Lieutenant-General Smilo Freiherr von Lüttwitz)
• Hermann Göring Panzer Division (Major-General Paul Conrath)
• German 362nd Infantry Division (Major-General Heinz Greiner)
• German 71st Infantry Division (Lieutenant-General Wilhelm Raapke)

[edit] Sources

• LLoyd Clark (2006). Anzio: The Friction of War. Italy and the Battle for Rome 1944. Headline Publishing Group, London. ISBN 978 0 7553 1420 1. 
• Orders of Battle.com. Retrieved on 2007-07-23.
• Houterman, Hans; Koppes, Jeroen. World War II unit histories and officers. Retrieved on 2007-07-23.
• Wendell, Marcus. Axis History Factbook: German army order of battle. Retrieved on 2007-07-23.