The Fifth Army's attack on the Gustav Line began on January 16, 1944, at Monte Cassino. The operation failed to break through, but it partly succeeded in its primary objective. Heinrich von Vietinghoff, commanding the Gustav Line, called for reinforcements, and Kesselring transferred the 29th and 90th Panzergrenadier Divisions from Rome.

Jan 29, 2013 · US Fifth Army captured Gaeta, Italy. 23 May 1944 Three US and two British divisions launched a new assault out of the Anzio, Italy beachhead at dawn, inflicting heavy casualties on German formations but also suffering similarly.

Feb 21, 2025 · Battle of Anzio, (January 22–June 5, 1944) World War II battle, fought during the Italian Campaign. Some 50,000 Allied troops staged an amphibious landing (codenamed Operation Shingle) at Anzio, 33 miles (53 km) south of Rome, in an effort to bypass the strong German defenses along the Gustav Line.

May 31, 2019 · 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).

US Fifth Army, commanded by Lieutenant-General Mark Wayne Clark, committed two corps reinforced with divisions of British X Corps. Commanded by Major-General John P. Lucas until February 23, then Major-General Lucian K. Truscott. Truscottt was deputy commander from 16 February to February 23.

Dec 26, 2021 · Churchill had convinced the Allied Command to conduct a beach landing about sixty miles behind German lines at Anzio and needed the United States’ 5th Army to prevent German reinforcements from...

In the early morning hours of 22 January 1944, VI Corps of Lt. Gen. Mark W. Clark's Fifth Army landed on the Italian coast below Rome and established a beachhead far behind the enemy lines.

Jan 19, 2015 · From Salerno to the Alps, a history of the Fifth Army, 1943-1945 ... THE ANZIO BEACHHEAD... 122 1. Planning for Operation Shingle 122 2. Establishing the Beachhead 128 3. VI Corps Goes on the Defensive.— 137 4. The First Enemy Counterattacks.... 139 5. Holding the Beachhead 145 6. The Tide Turns 157 7. The Final Enemy Drive 161 8.

Jan 3, 2021 · The US Fifth Army planned to attack the Gustav Line and draw the opposing forces south while the VI Crops land at Anzio. A big problem with the plan soon emerged; the orders given to the commander of what would become the battle of Anzio didn’t reflect the absolute urgency of the attack.

Oct 9, 2001 · Anzio Beachhead, fourteenth in the series of studies of particular combat operations, is the story of how VI Corps of the American Fifth Army seized and held a strategic position far to the rear of the main fighting front, in the Italian campaign of 1944.