Secondly, and this is overlooked with nauseating regularity by those with little or no military critical thinking. It ...

Every week, The Post runs a collection of letters of readers’ grievances — pointing out grammatical mistakes, missing ...

After that, the unit headed to the desperate Anzio beachhead, where it was assigned to defend over 8 miles of the right flank with fewer than 1,100 men, facing a full division of 10,000 German ...

The Anzio Beachhead resembled the muddy battlefields of World War 1. Muddy trenches, huge artillery craters, and a stalemate reminiscent of the previous conflict.

Maj. Gen. John P. Lucas, commander of the Anzio operation, was overly cautious in his advance off the beachhead, Easter said. While Lucas waited for more men and supplies, the German Army ...

McFall said the first combat he saw as part of the 36th Division, which was 13,000 men, when they were sent to the Anzio Beachhead, located roughly 17 miles south of Anzio, Rome.

On the Anzio beachhead last week the U.S. and Allied press won a minor counterattack but they were losing a major battle against brass-buttoned censorship. The Army had served notice that it could ...

George D. “Gus” Isaac passed away in his home surrounded by family on the morning of February 10, 2025; he was 101 years old, didn’t look a day over 70, his mind sharp as a tack.