"Anzio, in the meantime, was undergoing a quicker change for the worse than it had ever known in its long history. German shelling of the town and...
29 January 1944. "Operation Shingle was now a week old. Seven Liberty ships and 201 LST loads had been cleared at the beachhead, and 27,250 tons...
29 January 1944. "157 RCT arrives off deserted and battered port of Anzio. Unloading of troops and equipment begins at that time and continues...
Brilliant, Richard. Do you have all of 1st AD records from Anzio? Dave
According to General Orders 258, HQ, 45th Infantry Division, dated 6 November 1944, PVT Max Leive, ASN 42058757, 2678th Civil Affairs Regiment,...
28 January 1944. "By the 28th, VI Corps had moved beyond the range of naval gunfire support except on its flanks, and much stiffer enemy...
27 January 1944. "On January 27 and 28, an obscure fighter unit, known formally as the 99th Fighter Squadron (Separate), made its first...
Bill, 80% percent of the Army Personnel files were destroyed in the 1973 fire at the NPRC, St. Louis. Although the odds are not favorable, you...
25 January 1944. "In the course of the morning, destroyer escort Frederick C. Davis, with a United States Army radio intercepting team on board,...
24 January 1944. The 179th RCT, less its Commanding Officer, disembarked on the shores near Nettuno. The first of the Thunderbirds had arrived on...
Dachau. There were no tanks of the 191st Tank Battalion at the gates of Dachau KZ on the morning of 29 April 1945. From the Battalion S-3 Report...
The following men of the 191st were awarded Bronze Stars for either meritorious service in combat or heroic achievement in action, per General...
106th Antiaircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion. The following men of the 106th AAA were awarded Bronze Stars for Meritorious service in...
Grazi to the staff of Sicily-Rome American Cemetery for providing the program and flyers, resized to fit here. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]...
Sgt. Thomas Ferguson, 6638th Engineer Mine Clearance Company, awarded the Purple Heart for wounds received in France, 29 October 1944, per General...
D Day. 22 January 1944: Allied Forces landed on the beaches 37 miles south of Rome. "The Anzio invasion began at 0200 on 22 January 1944 and...
D Day. 22 January 1944: "As the Allied Armada approached the darkened shoreline, the men in the first wave of Operation Shingle repeatedly...
22 January 1944: "SHINGLE was not a bad plan, and it embodied the military virtues of audacity and surprise. Yet enough pieces of it were bad to...
Company of Heroes is my favorite PC game of the last 12 years. I still play it on my Windows XP machine. I am annoyed that it won't work in...
Thanks for the great info, Richard. Otto, I indeed posted it here so that folks may discover the 6638th. Dave
