Anzio order of battle

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
Cpmmander-in-Chief of Allied Armies in Italy was General Sir Harold Alexander

US Fifth Army, commanded by Lieutenant-General Mark Wayne Clark, committed two corps reinforced with divisions of British X Corps

US VI Corps  Commanded by Major-General John P. Lucas until February 23, then Major-General Lucian K. Truscott. Truscottt was deputy commander from 16 February to February 23. Major-General Vyvyan Evelegh became dputy commanderfrom 16 February to 18 March


 * 3rd Infantry Division (Major-General Lucian K. Truscott until February 23 then Brigadier John W. O'Daniel) until 25 May 1944
 * British 1st Infantry Division (Major-General Ronald Penney)
 * 45th Infantry Division (Major-General William W. Eagles)
 * 1st Armored Division (Major-General Ernest N. Harmon)
 * 34th Infantry Division (Major-General Charles W. Ryder) (from March 1944)
 * 36th Infantry Division (Major-General Fred L. Walker) (from April 1944)

British X Corps
 * British 5th Infantry Division (Major-General Philip Gregson-Ellis) (from March 1944)
 * British 56th Infantry Division (Major-General Gerald Templer) (from mid- February 1944 until mid-March 1944)


 * US-Canadian First Special Service Force (from early February, replacing the Ranger battalions)
 * 6615th Ranger Force
 * 1st Ranger Battalion
 * 3rd Ranger Battalion
 * 4th Ranger Battalion
 * 83rd Chemical Battalion
 * U.S. 509th Parachute Infantry Battalion)
 * 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment
 * British 2nd Special Service Brigade
 * No 9 Army Commando
 * No. 40 (Royal Marine) Commando

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

Axis forces and organization
Army Group C commanded by Generalfeldmarschall Albert Kesselring

German Fourteenth Army
 * General Eberhard von Mackensen (until end May 1944, then under direct command of Kesselring)

I Parachute Corps (General Alfred Schlemm)
 * 4th Parachute Division (Major-General Heinrich Trettner)
 * Nembo Battalion from RSI Parachute Regiment "Folgore" (Italian Social Republic) (Captain Corradino Alvino)
 * 29th Panzergrenadier Division (Lieutenant-General Walter Fries)
 * 65th Infantry Division (Major-General Hellmuth Pfeifer)
 * 715th Infantry Division (Major-General Hans-Georg Hildebrandt)
 * 114th Jäger Division (Lieutenant-General Karl Eglseer)

German LXXVI Panzer Corps (General Traugott Herr)
 * 3rd Panzergrenadier Division (Lieutenant-General Fritz-Hubert Gräser)
 * 26th Panzer Division (Lieutenant-General Smilo Freiherr von Lüttwitz)
 * Hermann Göring Panzer Division (Major-General Paul Conrath)
 * 362nd Infantry Division (Major-General Heinz Greiner)
 * 71st Infantry Division (Lieutenant-General Wilhelm Raapke)

Decima Flottiglia MAS (Captain Junio Valerio Borghese)
 * Battaglione Barbarigo (Captain Umberto Bardelli