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

Allied Armies in Italy

C-in-C: General Sir Harold Alexander

US Fifth Army

Commander:

Lieutenant-General Mark Wayne Clark
US VI Corps
US VI Corps as organized during the Battle of Anzio 22 January to 31 March 1944[1]
Major-General John P. Lucas (until February 23)
Major-General Lucian K. Truscott (from February 23)
Deputy commander: Major-General Lucian K.Truscottt (from 16 February to February 23)
Deputy commander: Major-General Vyvyan Evelegh (from 16 February to 18 March)
U.S. II Corps (from 25 May 1944)
Major-General Geoffrey Keyes

Axis forces and organization

Army Group C

Commander:

Generalfeldmarschall Albert Kesselring

German Fourteenth Army

Commander: General Eberhard von Mackensen (until end May 1944, then under direct command of Kesselring)
I Parachute Corps
General Alfred Schlemm
German LXXVI Panzer Corps
General Traugott Herr
Decima Flottiglia MAS
Captain Junio Valerio Borghese[3]

Notes

  1. ^ Nafziger, George. "US VI Corps Invasion of Anzio 22 January to 31 March 1944" (PDF). U.S. Army Combined Arms Research Library. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 August 2016. Retrieved 4 August 2016.
  2. ^ Designated regiments on paper, the Force actually totalled about 2,000 men at full strength.
  3. ^ The RSI's Decima Flottiglia MAS units in Anzio was under the command of Borghese.

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