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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Back to U.S. Army Southern European Task Force, Africa NETTUNO, Italy — U.S. Army Master Sgt. Joshua Van Horn walked through the curved rows of white marble crosses at the Sicily-Rome American ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The determination of the leaders and men under these conditions was astonishing. Despite the impossible odds, regardless of how many of their comrades has already ...

I was serving on board the destroyer HMS Inglefield on 22nd January 1944, and whilst we did not see what was happening ashore on that fateful day of Operation "Shingle", as the landoings at Anzio were ...

Congrats to chef/owner Todd Harrington of Anzio’s Brick Oven Pizza in North Grafton on being voted Mobile Cuisine’s 2016 Pizza Food Truck of the Year. Mobile ...