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'''Anzio [[order of battle]]''' is a listing of the significant formations that were involved in the [[Operation Shingle|fighting for the Anzio bridgehead]] south of [[Rome]], January 1944 – June 1944

==Allied Forces and organization==

===Allied Armies in Italy===
:'''C-in-C:''' General '''[[Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis|Sir Harold Alexander]]'''

====US Fifth Army====
'''Commander:'''
:Lieutenant-General '''[[Mark Wayne Clark]]'''

===== [[VI Corps (United States)|US VI Corps]] =====
[[File:US VI Corps, Anzio Invasion 22 JAN-31 MAR 44.png|thumb|500px|US VI Corps as organized during the Battle of Anzio 22 January to 31 March 1944<ref>{{cite web|last1=Nafziger|first1=George|title=US VI Corps Invasion of Anzio 22 January to 31 March 1944|url=http://cgsc.edu/CARL/nafziger/944UAMB.pdf|website=U.S. Army Combined Arms Research Library|accessdate=4 August 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160821060246/http://cgsc.edu/CARL/nafziger/944UAMB.pdf|archive-date=21 August 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref>]]
: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)

:* [[3rd Infantry Division (United States)|3rd Infantry Division]] (Major-General Lucian K. Truscott until February 23 then Brigadier [[John W. O'Daniel]]) until 25 May 1944
:* [[History of the British 1st Division during the World Wars|British 1st Infantry Division]] (Major-General [[Ronald Penney]])
:* [[45th Infantry Division (United States)|45th Infantry Division]] (Major-General [[William W. Eagles]])
:* [[1st Armored Division (United States)|1st Armored Division]] (Major-General [[Ernest N. Harmon]])
:* [[56th (London) Division (United Kingdom)|British 56th Infantry Division]] (Major-General [[Gerald Templer]]) (from mid- February 1944 until mid-March 1944)
:* [[34th Infantry Division (United States)|34th Infantry Division]] (Major-General [[Charles W. Ryder]]) (from March 1944)
:* [[36th Infantry Division (United States)|36th Infantry Division]] (Major-General [[Fred L. Walker]]) (from April 1944)
:* [[5th Infantry Division (United Kingdom)|British 5th Infantry Division]] (Major-General [[Philip Gregson-Ellis]]) (from March 1944)

:* [[First Special Service Force|US-Canadian First Special Service Force]] (3 regiments; from early February)<ref>Designated regiments on paper, the Force actually totalled about 2,000 men at full strength.</ref>
:* [[6615th Ranger Force]] ([[1st Ranger Battalion (United States)|1st]], [[3d Ranger Battalion (United States)|3rd]] and [[4th Ranger Battalion (United States)|4th]] battalions, [[83rd Chemical Battalion]] and [[509th Infantry Regiment (United States)|U.S. 509th Parachute Infantry Battalion]])
:* [[504th Parachute Infantry Regiment (World War II)|504th Parachute Infantry Regiment]]
:* [[2nd Special Service Brigade|British 2nd Special Service Brigade]] ([[No 9 Army Commando|9]] and [[43 Commando|43]] [[British Commandos]])

===== [[U.S. II Corps]] (from 25 May 1944)=====
:Major-General '''[[Geoffrey Keyes]]'''
:* [[88th Infantry Division (United States)|88th Infantry Division]] (Major-General [[John E. Sloan]])
:* [[85th Infantry Division (United States)|85th Infantry Division]] (Major-General [[John B. Coulter]])
:* [[3rd Infantry Division (United States)|3rd Infantry Division]] (Brigadier [[John W. O'Daniel]])

==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 (Germany)|I Parachute Corps]]=====
:General [[Alfred Schlemm]]
:*[[4th Parachute Division (Germany)|4th Parachute Division]] (Major-General [[Heinrich Trettner]])
:**"Nembo" Battalion from RSI Parachute Regiment "Folgore" ([[Italian Social Republic]]) (Captain Corradino Alvino)
:*[[29th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)|29th Panzergrenadier Division]] (Lieutenant-General [[Walter Fries]])
:*[[65th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)|65th Infantry Division]] (Major-General [[Hellmuth Pfeifer]])
:*[[715th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)|715th Infantry Division]] (Major-General [[Hans-Georg Hildebrandt]])
:**"Barbarigo" Battalion from [[Decima Flottiglia MAS]] ([[Italian Social Republic]]) (Captain [[Umberto Bardelli]])<ref>{{cite journal|first=Gianfranco |last=La Vizzera |journal=Storia del XX Secolo |title=Decima MAS:Leggenda della RSI. Il Battaglione Barbarigo |issue=#2, June 1995 |language=Italian |accessdate=5 May 2009 |url=http://www.italia-rsi.org/farsixa/xabarbarigo.htm |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100329012233/http://www.italia-rsi.org/farsixa/xabarbarigo.htm |archivedate=29 March 2010 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal| first=Luca| last=Villoresi| url=http://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/1994/06/03/barbarigo-teschi-memorie.html| title=Barbarigo Teschi e memorie| journal=La Repubblica, Culture Section| issue=3 June 1994| accessdate=24 April 2009| language=Italian| page=35}}</ref>
:*[[114th Jäger Division (Germany)|114th Jäger Division]] (Lieutenant-General [[Karl Eglseer]])

=====[[German LXXVI Panzer Corps]]=====
:General [[Traugott Herr]]
:*[[3rd Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)|3rd Panzergrenadier Division]] (Lieutenant-General [[Fritz-Hubert Gräser]])
:*[[23rd Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)|26th Panzer Division]] (Lieutenant-General [[Smilo Freiherr von Lüttwitz]])
:*[[Fallschirm-Panzer Division 1 Hermann Göring|Hermann Göring Panzer Division]] (Major-General [[Paul Conrath]])
:*[[362nd Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)|362nd Infantry Division]] (Major-General [[Heinz Greiner]])
:*[[71st Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)|71st Infantry Division]] (Lieutenant-General [[Wilhelm Raapke]])
==Notes==
{{Reflist}}
==Sources==
* {{cite book | first=Lloyd| last=Clark | title=Anzio: The Friction of War. Italy and the Battle for Rome 1944 | publisher=Headline Publishing Group| location=London | year=2006 | isbn=978-0-7553-1420-1}}
* {{cite web|url=http://www.ordersofbattle.com/OOBDefault.aspx |title=Orders of Battle.com |accessdate=2007-07-23 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070717145740/http://www.ordersofbattle.com/OOBDefault.aspx |archivedate=17 July 2007 |url-status=dead }}
* {{cite web|url=http://www.unithistories.com/default.asp |title=World War II unit histories and officers|accessdate=2007-07-23 |last=Houterman |first=Hans|author2=Koppes, Jeroen| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20070626104300/http://www.unithistories.com/default.asp| archivedate= 26 June 2007 | url-status= live}}
* {{cite web|url=http://www.axishistory.com/index.php?id=30 |title=Axis History Factbook: German army order of battle |accessdate=2007-07-23 |last=Wendell |first=Marcus |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20061029135233/http://axishistory.com/index.php?id=30 |archivedate=2006-10-29 }}

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