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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 ...

Operation Shingle began with a daring landing but soon exposed fatal mistakes in planning, intelligence, and command. From the doomed Ranger assault at Cisterna to German encirclement and relentless ...

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 ...

The Anzio landings were meant to outflank German defenses and open the road to Rome, but hesitation turned opportunity into catastrophe. As Field Marshal Kesselring reacted with ruthless speed, Allied ...

My name is Bill Critten and a crew member of 120 LCA Flotilla attached to HMS Glengyle. We had already done the landings at Sicily and Salerno so we knew what to expect at Anzio About 8 ratings from ...

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 ...

I was serving on board the destroyer HMS Inglefield on 22nd January 1944, and whilst we did not see what was happening ashore on that fateful day of Operation "Shingle", as the landoings at Anzio were ...