Battle of Anzio

January 22 – June 4, 1944 · Anzio

Result Allied victory

Allied amphibious landing at Anzio and Nettuno, behind the German Gustav Line in Italy. The beachhead was contained for four months before Allied forces broke out in May 1944 and advanced on Rome.

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Allies

Axis

United States

United Kingdom

Canada

Germany

Italian Social Republic

Harold Alexander military commander

Mark W. Clark military commander

Lucian Truscott military commander

John P. Lucas military commander

Albert Kesselring military commander

Eberhard von Mackensen military commander

Alfred Schlemm military commander

Traugott Herr military commander

Strength and losses

Strength: 150,000
Casualties: 43,000
Killed: 7,000
Aircraft: 2,700
Guns: 1,500
Vehicles: 2,300

Casualties: 40,000
Killed: 5,000
Captured: 4,500
Aircraft: 337

Germany Strength 135,000

Italian Social Republic Strength 4,600

Units

15th Army Group Harold Alexander Mark W. Clark US Fifth Army Walton Walker VI Corps (United States) 1st Armored Division (United States) 36th Infantry Division (United States) 45th Infantry Division (United States) US 3rd Division Lucian Truscott 1st Cavalry Regiment (United States)

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504th Infantry Regiment 7th Infantry Regiment (United States) Mediterranean Allied Air Forces

Army Group C 14th Army (Wehrmacht) Eberhard von Mackensen Joachim Lemelsen Otto Wöhler Wilhelm List 1939–present 114th Jäger Division 15th Panzergrenadier Division 29th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Italian) 356th Infantry Division 4th Parachute Division 65th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)

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715th Infantry Division

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