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WWII Anzio Arc PatchEntry/Object ID
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Collection of Chauncey Howard Franks involvement in WWII.
12.09 US Army Forces ANZIO Invasion tab arc patch
Battle of Anzio, (22 January–5 June 1944), World War II event on the coast of Italy, south of Rome. Intended as a daring outflanking move that would open up the way to the capture of Rome, the Anzio landings degenerated into World War II deadlock: the Allies unable to drive forward from their bridgehead and the Germans without the means to push the invaders back into the sea.
Having failed to break through the German Gustav Line, the Allies proposed to land an amphibious force on the (western) Italian coast behind German lines. A combined U.S.-British operation, under the command of Major General John Lucas’s U.S. VI Corps, it lacked the resources to be effective. The landings on 22 January did, however, achieve complete surprise and were virtually uncontested. Lucas then made the much-criticized decision not to exploit this opportunity; instead of pushing forward, he decided to consolidate his beachhead, leading Winston Churchill to famously quip, “I had hoped we were hurling a wildcat into the shore, but all we got was a stranded whale.” https://www.britannica.com/event/Battle-of-AnzioCollection
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