page_title: Battle of Anzio
section_title: First landings
hierarchical_section_title: Battle of Anzio / Battle / First landings
caption_attribution_description: Force dispositions at Anzio and Cassino January/February 1944
context_page_description: The Battle of Anzio, which is also called Operation Shingle was an Allied sea landing in the Italian Campaign against German forces of Anzio and Nettuno, Italy.
  The attack was commanded by American Major General John P. Lucas. He wanted to get around German forces on the Winter Line. Then he wanted to attack Rome. Making a sea landing in a marshland needed to be done quickly.
  The landing surprised the Germans. The Allies even got near Rome. The Allies got their men ready on the beach. The German commander in the Put his guns around the beach. The Germans also flooded the marsh with salt water.
  After a month of heavy fighting,
  the Allies finally got past the beaches in May. The Allies went north-west to Rome which was captured on 4 June.
  The German Tenth Army at Cassino were able to go north of Rome. Then they got ready to defend the Gothic Line.
context_section_description: The landings began on January 22, 1944. The Germans did not attack the landings except for a few Luftwaffe machine gun attacks. By midnight, 36,000 soldiers and 3,200 vehicles had landed on the beaches.
  Two Allied divisions landed. There were two or three times that many German defenders.
caption: Force dispositions at Anzio and Cassino January / February 1944
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