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

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

There’s a reason Sir Keir Starmer’s photograph is found four pages from the front of the programme and Tony, Roy and Denis are relegated to four from the back.The three Oxford men bicker about wartime ...

What is of concern is that such specialised landing barges are not normally constructed until shortly before they are intended to be used. The Mulberry harbours went into production only a year ...

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 ...

As part of World War II’s strategy to liberate Italy from the Nazis, the Allies sent an invasion force of 36,000 troops with naval and air support to land behind German lines at Anzio and to cut ...

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 ...

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 ...

It was necessary to draw German defenders away from the projected Anzio landing. The casualties were not 2,900, as the indignant 36th claimed, but 1,681.

The attack was to be timed with the Anzio landing, 60 miles behind the German front at Cassino, trapping the Germans between two fires. Instead, it was the Allies who were trapped.