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

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)
• 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)
• 29th Panzergrenadier Division (Lieutenant-General Walter Fries)
• 65th Infantry Division (Major-General Hellmuth Pfeifer)
• 715th Infantry Division (Major-General Hans-Georg Hildebrandt)
  • Barbarigo Battalion (Captain Umberto Bardelli)
• 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)

• 10th Marine Infantry Division (General Giuseppe Corrado)

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.
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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.