Caption from LIFE. "In a riddled tent five men were killed and eight wounded by a German shell. The tent is a ward in the beachhead hospital." Caption from LIFE. "In a riddled tent five men were ...

Twenty-two American soldiers received the Medal of Honor for service during the battle of Anzio in World War II. In late 1943, the Allies were attempting to liberate Italy from the Germans during ...

WASHINGTON — Voice cracking and tears flowing as much from sentiment as the cold, the daughter of a survivor of the Battle of Anzio was among those attending a wreath-laying ceremony at the World War ...

This episode dives deep into Operation Shingle, exposing the fatal hesitation, flawed intelligence, and command decisions ...

The word beachhead, when used in a military context, defines a shore-based landing zone wrested from an enemy and secured as a route of access to inland targets. The key word invaders have learned ...

To my generation, the word “Anzio” has a connotation like Antietam and Okinawa. Bob Lynch, a Florida neighbor and a vigorous 92-year-old Irishman from Rye, N.Y., served at Anzio in the Second World ...

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 dubbed ...

The Creation of the U.S. Army's Amphibious Capability in the European Theatre.