Picture dated May 1944 showing U.S. tanks rolling from the open doors of an LST landing craft onto the shore of the Anzio beachead, South of Rome, on the West coast of Italy, during World War II.

Surprisingly, the Anzio landing itself (Operation SHINGLE) was a complete surprise to Field Marshal Kesselring and the entire German High Command, and the beachhead objectives had been reached by ...

Stories categorised in 'Anzio Landings 1944'. These stories may contain references to other themes. On one occasion when we were practising wet landings prior to the proposed invasion of Leros ...

Turton, from Sheffield, survived Anzio, unlike 7,000 British, Commonwealth and American troops who lost their lives in the Jan 22, 1944 landings and the grim stalemate that ensued. Another 36,000 ...

Veterans commemorate the 70th anniversary of WWII Anzio Landings in coastal towns just south of Rome. Gavino Garay reports.

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 important step toward the eventual Allied victory in ...

From desert landings in Morocco to combat over Anzio, US Spitfire squadrons flew more than 1,000 miles across North Africa ...

The town of Anzio is haunted by the memory of a little girl who may never have existed. The landing at Anzio, 25 miles south of Rome, on 22 January 1944, was a critical moment in the Second World War.

Anzio Landing by historycentre. ... We learned later that the landing was a complete surprise to the Germans, who thought it would take place North of Rome instead of South.