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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...