Operation Shingle began today, 79 years ago…
In case anyone else is interested in military history… I found this today. First, an short excerpt from from the mil history website… The article is much longer if you wish to read it there.
And then a 69pg PDF file released by the Naval war college. A review of Operation Shingle, the Battle at Anzio Italy in ww2.
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https://www.history.navy.mil/browse...s-and-operations/world-war-ii/1944/anzio.html
At the conclusion of Operation Avalanche, Allied leadership was optimistic that Rome might fall as early as late October 1943. These hopes rapidly diminished once it became clear that the German commander in Italy, Field Marshal Albert Kesselring, planned to stubbornly contest the Allied advance from Salerno. Poor weather, mountainous terrain, and a series of east-west river crossings aided the German defenders, who slowed the Allied armies to a crawl up the Italian peninsula in the fall of 1943. By the end of the year, the Allies faced a stalemate at the Germans’ Gustav Line, approximately halfway between Salerno and Rome...
USS LST-77 lands Fifth Army M-4 Sherman tanks on the Anzio waterfront, 27 April 1944. By this time, German pressure on the Allied beachhead had eased to some extent (SC 189668).
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https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1353&context=nwc-review
Naval War College Review
Volume 67 Number 4 Autumn Article 8 2014
The Allied Landing at Anzio-Nettuno, 22 January–4 March 1944: Operation SHINGLE
In case anyone else is interested in military history… I found this today. First, an short excerpt from from the mil history website… The article is much longer if you wish to read it there.
And then a 69pg PDF file released by the Naval war college. A review of Operation Shingle, the Battle at Anzio Italy in ww2.
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https://www.history.navy.mil/browse...s-and-operations/world-war-ii/1944/anzio.html
At the conclusion of Operation Avalanche, Allied leadership was optimistic that Rome might fall as early as late October 1943. These hopes rapidly diminished once it became clear that the German commander in Italy, Field Marshal Albert Kesselring, planned to stubbornly contest the Allied advance from Salerno. Poor weather, mountainous terrain, and a series of east-west river crossings aided the German defenders, who slowed the Allied armies to a crawl up the Italian peninsula in the fall of 1943. By the end of the year, the Allies faced a stalemate at the Germans’ Gustav Line, approximately halfway between Salerno and Rome...
USS LST-77 lands Fifth Army M-4 Sherman tanks on the Anzio waterfront, 27 April 1944. By this time, German pressure on the Allied beachhead had eased to some extent (SC 189668).
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https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1353&context=nwc-review
Naval War College Review
Volume 67 Number 4 Autumn Article 8 2014
The Allied Landing at Anzio-Nettuno, 22 January–4 March 1944: Operation SHINGLE
