FORT STEWART, Ga - More than 80 veterans, spouses and children from the World War II Anzio Beachhead landing traded stories and wisdom with Soldiers from the 2nd Heavy Brigade Combat Team during a ...

The push pins were jabbing ever closer at the heart of Nazi Germany. Cpl. Clyde Easter saw the progress most every time he came into the day room of the large recreation tent kept by the 181st ...

But the bombardment was nothing like the daily barrages awaiting the 34th Infantry Division soldier at Anzio. "The Germans had all the high spots, they were really dug in, and they threw everything ...

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 ...

On the Anzio beachhead last week the U.S. and Allied press won a minor counterattack but they were losing a major battle against brass-buttoned censorship. The Army had served notice that it could ...

All supplies for the troops who had landed on the Anzio Beachhead in January of 1944 had to be brought from Naples by supply ship, and being too large to dock in the port of Anzio had to anchor in the ...

Weary Allied troops camped before Cassino last week, bitter in defeat. Half-starved Gurkhas who had seized Hangman’s Hill, only to be left stranded there deep within German positions, had crawled back ...

566 pages. $35. In an article for The Evening Sun in January 1986 I concluded: “Yes, I would remember Anzio. I knew, too, that each and every one of us condemned to man this very special outpost would ...

It was the best of times; it was the worst of times on May 30, 1945, the traditional date for Memorial Day. The war in Europe had come to an end on May 7, punctuated by the suicide of Adolf Hitler on ...