Anzio order of battle
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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
Commander-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 deputy commander from 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 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)[a]
- 6615th Ranger Force
- 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment
- British 2nd Special Service Brigade
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)