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Part of World War II, Italian campaign

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 US Fifth Army VI Corps (United States) 1st Armored Division (United States) 36th Infantry Division (United States) 45th Infantry Division (United States) US 3rd Division 1st Cavalry Regiment (United States) 504th Infantry Regiment 7th Infantry Regiment (United States) Mediterranean Allied Air Forces
Army Group C 14th Army (Wehrmacht) 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) 715th Infantry Division

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