Another 362 weren’t recovered or identified. The Anzio landings, also known as Operation Shingle, didn’t result in a rapid advance to Rome, as Allied leaders had hoped. But they were an ...

The Anzio landings were marked by the caution displayed by the Allied commanding officer, General John Lucas. Landing unopposed on 22 January 1944, US and British forces rapidly advanced inland to ...

The Rapido River Crossing of late January 1944 was carried out to help support the Anzio Landings but it would turn into a massacre for the men of the US 36th Infantry Division. With large numbers ...

A HISTORIAN is hoping to find the family of a Wirral man who died in World War Two so he can help discover the name of unknown soldier's grave.

The abbey had been evacuated by the Germans following the Allied landings; both the Germans and ... and then move out from a beachhead at Anzio, 95km (60 miles) behind the Gustav Line.