On January 22, 1944, six months after the Allied invasion of Sicily, American and British troops swarmed ashore at Anzio, roughly 30 miles south of Rome. The brainchild of Winston Churchill and ...

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.

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.

On the 23rd of January the destroyer HMS Janus was sunk by a glider bomb off Anzio few survivours. On 24January 44 Hospital ship SS St David fully illuminated red crosses, Was bombed and sunk off ...