"a deep ditch, which can still be traced, and by walls, a portion of which, on the eastern side, constructed of rectangular blocks of tufa, was brought to light in 1897. In 1857 Pope Pius IX founded the modern municipality (""comune"") of Anzio, with the boundaries of Nettuno being redrawn to accommodate the new town. Anzio and Nettuno are also notable as sites of an Allied forces landing and the ensuing Battle of Anzio during World War II. The Commonwealth Anzio War Cemetery and Beach Head War Cemetery are located here. In February 1944 American soldiers (the U.S. Fifth Army)"
"also involved in a replenishment at sea operation with , , , , and . USS Anzio (CG-68) USS ""Anzio"" (CG-68) is a guided missile cruiser of the United States Navy, named for the site of a beachhead invasion of Italy by Allied troops from 22 January to 23 May 1944. Her keel was laid down by the Litton-Ingalls Shipbuilding Corporation at Pascagoula, Mississippi on 21 August 1989. The ship was launched on 2 November 1990, and commissioned on 2 May 1992, under Captain H. Wyman Howard. ""Anzio"" operates out of Norfolk, Virginia. The ship is named for the battle"
"USS Anzio (CG-68) USS ""Anzio"" (CG-68) is a guided missile cruiser of the United States Navy, named for the site of a beachhead invasion of Italy by Allied troops from 22 January to 23 May 1944. Her keel was laid down by the Litton-Ingalls Shipbuilding Corporation at Pascagoula, Mississippi on 21 August 1989. The ship was launched on 2 November 1990, and commissioned on 2 May 1992, under Captain H. Wyman Howard. ""Anzio"" operates out of Norfolk, Virginia. The ship is named for the battle that took place at Anzio, Italy, the site of an Allied amphibious assault during Operation"
"1944. By early 1944 the Allied attention had turned to the western front and the Allies were taking heavy losses trying to breakthrough the Winter line at Monte Cassino. The Allies landed at Anzio on 22 January 1944 with the aim of outflanking the Gustav line and pulling Axis forces out of it so other allied armies could breakthrough. After slow progress, the Germans counterattacked in February but failed to stamp out the Allies, after months of stalemate, the Allies broke out in May 1944 and Rome fell to the Allies on 4 June 1944. Following the Normandy invasion on"
"in Malta and Sicily and the first to land in Italy. They distinguished the unit by destroying seven enemy fighters attacking allied shipping during the invasion of Sicily and six more attacking the invasion force on the beaches of Salerno. Their missions consisted mainly of sweeps over allied positions and escorting bombers attacking German positions. January 1944 brought the Allied Landing at Anzio with the 31st the sole provider of air cover for the invasion and beachhead. In March 1944 the group exchanged their Spitfires for the new North American P-51 Mustangs. This brought about an immediate mission change as"
"Operation Avalanche Operation Avalanche was the codename for the Allied landings near the port of Salerno, executed on 9 September 1943, part of the Allied invasion of Italy. The Italians withdrew from the war the day before the invasion, but the Allies landed in an area defended by German troops. Planned under the name ""Top Hat"", it was supported by the deception plan Operation Boardman. The landings were carried out by the US Fifth Army, under American General Mark W. Clark. It comprised the U.S. VI Corps, the British X Corps and the US 82nd Airborne Division, a total of"
"USS Anzio (CVE-57) USS ""Anzio"" (CVE-57), was a of the United States Navy that saw service during the World War II in the Pacific War. Originally classified as an auxiliary aircraft carrier ACV-57, the vessel was laid down in 1942 in Vancouver, Washington by the Kaiser Shipbuilding Company. The vessel was initially named Alikula Bay, but was renamed Coral Sea and redesignated CVE-57 in 1943. ""Coral Sea"" took part in naval operations supporting attacks on the Gilbert and Marshall Islands, New Guinea and the Marianas Islands. In September 1944, the vessel was renamed Anzio. As ""Anzio"", the escort carrier took"
"instrumental in spelling the beginning of the end for the southern stronghold of the Axis. These same landing techniques were later used at Salerno and Anzio on the Italian mainland. Unfortunately, the Germans had learned their lesson from the Sicilian debacle, and this time they were lying in wait. It was in the face of fierce resistance and heavy bombardment that the Allies suffered heavy casualties as they stormed ashore at both Salerno and Anzio, and the Seabees absorbed their share of the casualties. At Anzio the situation was particularly desperate. Anzio had been a diversionary landing behind enemy lines"
"afloat. Operating in the most advanced areas"" USS Anzio (CVE-57) USS ""Anzio"" (CVE-57), was a of the United States Navy that saw service during the World War II in the Pacific War. Originally classified as an auxiliary aircraft carrier ACV-57, the vessel was laid down in 1942 in Vancouver, Washington by the Kaiser Shipbuilding Company. The vessel was initially named Alikula Bay, but was renamed Coral Sea and redesignated CVE-57 in 1943. ""Coral Sea"" took part in naval operations supporting attacks on the Gilbert and Marshall Islands, New Guinea and the Marianas Islands. In September 1944, the vessel was renamed"
"had been expected, as seen at Salerno during 1943, the initial landings were essentially unopposed, with the exception of desultory ""Luftwaffe"" strafing runs. By midnight, 36,000 soldiers and 3,200 vehicles had landed on the beaches. Thirteen Allied troops were killed, and 97 wounded; about 200 Germans had been taken as POWs. The 1st Division penetrated inland, the Rangers captured Anzio's port, the 509th PIB captured Nettuno, and the 3rd Division penetrated inland. In the first days of operations, the command of the Italian resistance movement had a meeting with the Allied General Headquarters: it offered to guide the Allied Force"
"1943 the Allied Armies in Italy (AAI), consisting of the American Fifth and British Eighth Armies, commanded by General Alexander, were bogged down in front of the Winter Line defences, 80 miles south of Rome. Operation Shingle, General Alexander envisioned, would land Lucas's Anglo-American VI Corps in an amphibious operation at the port town of Anzio, behind the German line, which ran from Monte Cassino to the mouth of the River Garigliano, and draw off German defenders from the Winter Line to face the new threat at Anzio, enabling elements of Clark's Fifth Army to break through at Cassino, drive"
"bomber during a real bombing raid over Nazi Berlin. Other notable reports were from Anzio, the Burgundy vineyards, Lord Haw-Haw's broadcasting studio and the Belsen concentration camp. Anzio (US title), also known as Lo sbarco di Anzio (original Italian title) or The Battle for Anzio (UK title) - a 1968 war film, an Italian and American co-production, about Operation Shingle, the 1944 Allied seaborne assault on the Italian port of Anzio in the Second World War - was adapted from the book ""Anzio"" by Wynford Vaughan-Thomas, who had been the BBC war correspondent at the battle. The film starred Robert"
"Anzio areas. Later in the year, using North American B-25 Mitchell bombers the group attacked German supply lines in northern Italy, bombing bridges, marshalling yards, and roads. In March, it earned two Distinguished Unit Citations for raids on marshalling yards in Rome and Florence that damaged enemy communications without destroying cultural monuments. For supporting the Allied ground advance in Italy during April, May, and June 1944, the group earned the French Croix de Guerre. During the summer, it bombed bridges over the Po River in northern Italy using B-25 bombers to block the stream of German supplies and reinforcements going"
"guns being in service for the Invasion of France, although problems were encountered with barrel splitting and rectified with changes to the rifling. The guns were then reliable until the end of the war, under the designation K5 Tiefzug 7 mm. Three of them were installed on the English Channel coast to target British shipping in the Channel, but proved unsuccessful at this task. Two K5 guns, named ""Robert"" and ""Leopold"" by German crews, were shipped to Italy to help counter the American landing at the town of Anzio in February 1944. The Allied soldiers stuck on the beach nicknamed"
"up through the Liri valley and link up with VI Corps at Anzio. Penney's division was to come under the command of Lucas's US VI Corps, which also included the US 1st Armored and 3rd Infantry Divisions (under Major Generals Ernest N. Harmon and Lucian Truscott, respectively), supported by British Commandos and US Army Rangers, the 504th Parachute Regimental Combat Team (504th PRCT), along with elements of the British 23rd Armoured Brigade, and the operation was to take place on 22 January 1944. The operation went ahead as planned, with Penney's 1st Division landing in the northern sector of Anzio,"
"On 9 January 2003, ""Anzio"" was pre-deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Ordered first to the eastern Mediterranean Sea for the initial phase of President George W. Bush's Shock and Awe strategy (during which the U.S. Navy deployed to defeat the Iraq military before ground forces were sent in). Once ""Anzio"" completed her mission in the eastern Mediterranean, she forward-deployed to the Persian Gulf. Once ""Anzio"" arrived in the Persian Gulf, she had marked her 45th straight day at sea. In the Persian Gulf, ""Anzio"" continued carrier-flight support operations and coastal surveillance. After President Bush announced major combat had"
"by infantry forces of both sides, during bitter small-scale fighting around strongpoints at the Winter Line, the Anzio beachhead and the Gothic Line. The campaign ended when Army Group C surrendered unconditionally to the Allies on May 2, 1945, one week before the formal German Instrument of Surrender. The independent states of San Marino and the Vatican, both surrounded by Italian territory, also suffered damage during the campaign. Even before the victory in the North African Campaign in May 1943, there was disagreement between the Allies on the best strategy to defeat the Axis. The British, especially the Prime Minister,"
"but of being interested only in drawing pay and eating rations. General Harold Alexander, commander of the Allied Armies in Italy, had already considered such a plan since October using five divisions. However, the 5th Army did not have the troops nor the means to transport them. Clark proposed landing a reinforced division to divert German troops from Monte Cassino. This second landing, however, instead of failing similarly, would hold ""the shingle"" for a week in expectation of a breakthrough at Cassino, and so the operation was named Shingle. The Anzio beachhead is at the northwestern end of a tract"
"the Allies in summer 1944, when test pilot, Serafino Agostini, defected with an escaped British POW, an RAF officer, sitting on his knees. The aircraft was then taken on charge by the RAF and transferred to the Central Fighter Establishment of Tangmere, Great Britain, on 17 March 1945, with the identification number VF204 applied, was put in the depot at Ford; its final fate is unrecorded.) From that date on, the ""Centauro"" served with the ""Aeronautica Nazionale Repubblicana"" (ANR), the air force of the new fascist state created in North Italy by Mussolini, with the assistance of the Germans. It"
"2nd Special Service Brigade The 2nd Special Service Brigade was formed in late 1943 in the Middle East and saw service in Italy, the Adriatic, the landings at Anzio and took part in operations in Yugoslavia. On December 6, 1944, the Brigade was renamed 2nd Commando Brigade, removing the hated title ""Special Service"" and its association with the Schutzstaffel. The brigade as a formation, was not involved in Operation Husky, the Allied invasion of Sicily, but 40 RM Commando was involved in the assault landings as Army Troops. In Operation Shingle, the assault at Anzio, No. 9 (Army) Commando and"
"wave through a known minefield to the bloody landing at Salerno. She and her sister ships were warmly commended by the commanding general ashore for their effective close range fire support. She then served on convoy duty between Naples and Oran, until 11 January 1944. Returning to the beachheads, she covered Allied troops storming ashore at Anzio 22 January. This Joint American–British operation initially met little opposition, but later in the day the Germans struck with a fierce counterattack. Heavy air attacks marked the following days and, in less than a week, ""Ludlow"" splashed two bombers one fighter, and three"
"operate against partisan units in the vicinity of the Southern Alps. On 28 January, the 2. Staffel was also equipped with the CR.42. The training of German pilots took place at a school in Venaria Reale. During February 1944, after news of the Allies' landing at Anzio, 1.""Staffel"" and 2.""Staffel"", based at Centocelle Airport in Rome, attacked Allied units in southern Latium, which were conducted mostly during moonlit night raids. NSGr9 attacked enemy troops in the Monte Cassino area. The CR.42 proved to be useful as a light bomber at night, but subsequently NSGr9 began to be equipped with the"
"Shingle as part of the Italian Campaign of World War II. One other ship, , an escort carrier decommissioned after World War II, shares her name. On 6 April 2000, ""Anzio"", along with another cruiser and the aircraft carrier , was participating in an exercise in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea, about off the coast of Israel. In an unannounced missile test, the Israel Defense Forces fired a Jericho-1 medium-range ballistic missile from a test facility in Yavne, which landed from the ship. The missile was detected by the ship's radar, and the crew briefly thought that they were under attack."
"on 22 January 1944. For this mission, CCA (Combat Command A) of the 1st Armored Division was attached to the 45th Infantry Division. Landing on schedule, VI Corps surprised the Germans, but Major General Lucas's decision to consolidate the beachhead instead of attacking gave the Germans time to bring the LXXVI Panzer Corps forward to oppose the landings. One regiment of the 45th (the 179th Infantry) went ashore with the landings. In company with the British 1st Infantry Division, they advanced north along the Anzio-Albano road and captured the Aprilia ""factory"", but encountered ingrained resistance from German armored units a"
"part in assaults on the Bonin Islands and Okinawa. Following the cessation of hostilities in 1945, ""Anzio"" was among the escort carriers used in Operation Magic Carpet returning U.S. soldiers to the United States. Following this service, ""Anzio"" was laid up in reserve at Norfolk, Virginia in 1946. The escort carrier was redesignated CVHE-57 on 15 June 1955 before being sold for scrap in 1959. Originally classified as the auxiliary aircraft carrier ACV-57, the vessel's keel was laid down on 12 December 1942 by the Kaiser Shipbuilding Company at their yard in Vancouver, Washington under a Maritime Commission contract (MC"
"Eighth Army but soon became part of the U.S. Fifth Army, under Lieutenant General Mark W. Clark. Operation Shingle was an Allied amphibious landing against Axis forces in the area of Anzio and Nettuno, Italy. The operation was intended to outflank German forces at the Winter Line and enable an attack on the Italian capital of Rome. The resulting combat is commonly called the Battle of Anzio. The division came under the command of the U.S. VI Corps, under Major General John P. Lucas. The landings began on 22 January 1944. Although resistance had been expected, as seen at the"
"photos today. Tre Cancello Landing Strip Tre Cancello Landing Strip is an abandoned World War II military airfield in Italy, which is located approximately 11 km east-northeast of Anzio; about 50 km south-southeast of Rome. It was a temporary grass airfield used by the United States Army Air Force Twelfth Air Force 416th Night Fighter Squadron between 14 June and 8 July 1944, flying Bristol Beaufighters on night defensive interceptor patrols during the Anzio landing. When the Americans pulled out the airfield was dismantled by engineers and returned to agriculture. An outline of the runway remains in an agricultural field"
"Allied invasion of Sicily The Allied invasion of Sicily, codenamed Operation Husky, was a major campaign of World War II, in which the Allies took the island of Sicily from the Axis powers ( the Kingdom of Italy and Nazi Germany). It began with a large amphibious and airborne operation, followed by a six-week land campaign, and initiated the Italian Campaign. ""Husky"" began on the night of 9–10 July 1943, and ended on 17 August. Strategically, ""Husky"" achieved the goals set out for it by Allied planners; the Allies drove Axis air, land and naval forces from the island and"
"amphibious landings (Anzio and Southern France). The 95th Evacuation Hospital achieved national recognition at Anzio when, on 7 February 1944, a German plane dropped a load of fragmentation bombs on the hospital in an effort to evade two British planes, rendering the hospital inoperable, killing 28 people, and wounding an additional 60. Among the dead were two officers, three nurses, 16 enlisted men, a Red Cross worker, and two other personnel. As a result, the 95th was sent to the then-static Cassino front where it was re-staffed and re-equipped. As part of the buildup for operations in Vietnam, the 95th"
"Tre Cancello Landing Strip Tre Cancello Landing Strip is an abandoned World War II military airfield in Italy, which is located approximately 11 km east-northeast of Anzio; about 50 km south-southeast of Rome. It was a temporary grass airfield used by the United States Army Air Force Twelfth Air Force 416th Night Fighter Squadron between 14 June and 8 July 1944, flying Bristol Beaufighters on night defensive interceptor patrols during the Anzio landing. When the Americans pulled out the airfield was dismantled by engineers and returned to agriculture. An outline of the runway remains in an agricultural field in aerial"
"shells on Anzio. Even though the Allies expanded into all the Pomptine region, they gained no ground. The Germans counterattacked down the via Appia from the Alban hills in a front four miles wide, but could not retake Anzio. The battle lasted for four months, one side being supplied by sea, the other by land through Rome. In May 1944, the Allies broke out of Anzio and took Rome. The German forces escaped to the north of Florence. For the 1960 Summer Olympics, it served as part of the men's marathon course that was won by Abebe Bikila of Ethiopia."
"to another regiment, where he died in November 1943 in the fighting in Italy. Allied invasion of Sicily The Allied invasion of Sicily, codenamed Operation Husky, was a major campaign of World War II, in which the Allies took the island of Sicily from the Axis powers ( the Kingdom of Italy and Nazi Germany). It began with a large amphibious and airborne operation, followed by a six-week land campaign, and initiated the Italian Campaign. ""Husky"" began on the night of 9–10 July 1943, and ended on 17 August. Strategically, ""Husky"" achieved the goals set out for it by Allied"
"surrounding the Anzio beachhead. In August, it struck bridges, harbors, and troop concentrations to aid Operation Dragoon, the invasion of Southern France. It also hit communications lines and other targets during March and April 1945 to support the advance of British Eighth Army and American Fifth Army in northern Italy. By the time it ceased combat operations in April 1945, it had flown nearly 200 combat missions. The group returned to the United States in August 1945, being programmed for deployment to the Pacific Theater as a Boeing B-29 Superfortress very heavy bombardment squadron. A cadre reformed at Sioux Falls"