Anzio, the beachhead. See www.army.mil/cmh-pg/brochures/anzio/72-19; and anzio.netfirms.com/. The netfirms site offers a fine World War II overview. Click on the link for pictures. Debates continue about the strategies used by both sides, mistakes made, hindsight, heroism anyway.
The town is between Naples, where the ferry docked coming back from Sicily, and Ostia Antica, where we stayed before flying out of Rome. We took the long, meandering coastal route north - no motorways. There are fine memorials there. The battle was in 1944. We do try to remember.
One site says in the header that Anzio was a great military blunder. That issue is not new. See www.militaryhistoryonline.com/wwii/articles/anzio.aspx.
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