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Order of battle
Task Force 81


 * Rear Admiral Frank J. Lowry, USN


 * Allied forces landed: approx. 40,000 soldiers, and 5,000+ vehicles
 * Naval losses: 2 light cruisers, 3 destroyers, 2 minesweepers, 1 hospital ship

"Peter" Force

 * Rear Admiral Thomas Hope Troubridge
 * Comprising 2 light cruisers (HMS Orion (85), HMS Spartan), 12 destroyers, 2 anti-aircraft/fighter director ships, 2 gunboats, 6 minesweepers, 4 transports, 63 landing craft, 6 patrol craft, 1 oiler, 1 net tender, 2 tugs, 4 hospital ships, 1 submarine


 * Landed "Peter" Beach, 6 miles north of Anzio:
 * [[Image:British_1st_Division_3_type.svg|20px]] British 1st Infantry Division (Major General W.R.C. Penney)
 * 2nd Infantry Brigade
 * 1st Battalion, Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire)
 * 2nd Battalion, North Staffordshire Regiment
 * 6th Battalion, Gordon Highlanders
 * 3rd Infantry Brigade
 * 1st Battalion, Duke of Wellington's Regiment
 * 1st Battalion, King's Shropshire Light Infantry
 * 2nd Battalion, Sherwood Foresters
 * 24th Guards Brigade
 * 5th Battalion, Grenadier Guards
 * 1st Battalion, Irish Guards
 * 1st Battalion, Scots Guards
 * 1st Reconnaissance Regiment, Reconnaissance Corps
 * 2/7th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment
 * 2nd Field Regiment, Royal Artillery
 * 19th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery
 * 67th (South Midland) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery
 * 81st Anti-Tank Regiment, Royal Artillery
 * 90th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery
 * 23rd Field Company, Royal Engineers
 * 238th Field Company, Royal Engineers
 * 248th Field Company, Royal Engineers
 * 6th Field Park Company, Royal Engineers
 * 1st Bridging Platoon, Royal Engineers
 * 1st Divisional Signals, Royal Corps of Signals
 * 46th (Liverpool Welsh) Royal Tank Regiment
 * 2nd Special Service Brigade (partial) (Brigadier R.J.F. Tod)
 * No. 9 Commando
 * No.43 (Royal Marine) Commando
 * No 1, 2 & 3 Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps

Ranger Group

 * Captain E.C.L. Turner, RN
 * Comprising 1 transport, 1 submarine chaser, 7 landing craft


 * Attacked the port of Anzio:
 * 6615th Ranger Force (Colonel William O. Darby)
 * 1st Ranger Battalion
 * 3rd Ranger Battalion
 * 4th Ranger Battalion
 * 509th Parachute Infantry Battalion (PIB)
 * 83rd Chemical Mortar Battalion
 * 93rd Evacuation Hospital
 * 95th Evacuation Hospital

"X-Ray" Force

 * Rear Admiral Lowry
 * Comprising 2 light cruisers (USS Brooklyn (CL-40), HMS Penelope (97)), 11 destroyers, 2 destroyer escorts, 24 minesweepers, 166 landing craft, 20 subchasers, 3 tugs, 1 submarine, multiple salvage ships


 * Landed "X-Ray" Beach on the coast east of Nettuno, 6 miles east of Anzio:
 * [[Image:3rd_Infantry_Division_SSI_%281918-2015%29.svg|20px]] US 3rd Infantry ("Rock of the Marne") Division
 * Major General Lucian K. Truscott Jr.
 * 7th Infantry Regiment
 * 15th Infantry Regiment
 * 30th Infantry Regiment
 * HHB Division Artillery
 * 9th Field Artillery Battalion (155mm)
 * 10th Field Artillery Battalion (105mm)
 * 39th Field Artillery Battalion (75mm and 105mm)
 * 41st Field Artillery Battalion (105mm)
 * 10th Engineer Battalion
 * 601st Tank Destroyer Battalion
 * 751st Tank Battalion
 * 441st AAA Automatic Weapons Battalion
 * Battery B, 36th Field Artillery Regiment (155mm Gun)(Motorized)
 * 69th Armored Field Artillery Battalion
 * 84th Chemical Battalion (Motorized)
 * 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment