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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Seventy-five years ago, on Jan. 22, 1944, the Battle of Anzio (code-named "Operation Shingle") began with the amphibious landing of U.S. and British soldiers along a narrow strip of Italy's west ...

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 ...

Reed visited the Sicily-Rome American Cemetery Jan. 24 to honor the fallen on the 80th anniversary of the allied forces landing for World War II’s Battle of Anzio. (Courtesy photo) ...