Twenty-two American soldiers received the Medal of Honor for service during the battle of Anzio in World War II. In late 1943, the Allies were attempting to liberate Italy from the Germans during ...

The high-risk, high-payoff battle plan of "the Anzio idea" tantalized U.S. and British commanders seeking to end the bloody January 1944 stalemate in Italy. The complex operation could be summarized ...

The word beachhead, when used in a military context, defines a shore-based landing zone wrested from an enemy and secured as a route of access to inland targets. The key word invaders have learned ...

Seventy-five years ago, on Jan. 22, 1944, the Battle of Anzio (code-named "Operation Shingle") began with the amphibious landing of U.S. and British soldiers along a narrow strip of Italy's west coast ...

WASHINGTON — Voice cracking and tears flowing as much from sentiment as the cold, the daughter of a survivor of the Battle of Anzio was among those attending a wreath-laying ceremony at the World War ...

On January 22, 1944, six months after the Allied invasion of Sicily, American and British troops swarmed ashore at Anzio, roughly 30 miles south of Rome. The brainchild of Winston Churchill and dubbed ...

Syracuse, NY - Timing is everything, as the Vargo brothers understand. They often reflect on how 20 or 30 years ago, before the rise of the Internet, it would have been difficult for someone with a ...

To my generation, the word “Anzio” has a connotation like Antietam and Okinawa. Bob Lynch, a Florida neighbor and a vigorous 92-year-old Irishman from Rye, N.Y., served at Anzio in the Second World ...

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Made out of torpedo shells and pulled by tanks, the improvised infantry tactic saw heavy used during fighting in Italy. By Nicholas Slayton Published Sep 16, 2024 7:00 AM EDT Italy, the spring of 1944 ...