March 1944 brought encouraging news from all the war fronts. In the southwest Pacific, U.S. forces landed on the Admiralty Islands on Leap Day (Feb. 29). The island chain was located a short distance northeast of New Guinea and offered an excellent anchorage for...
Operation Shingle, the U.S. effort to flank the dug-in German forces in Central Italy, was still in its early stages as February 1944 began. But already things were going poorly on ground and at sea. U.S. ships resupplying the ground forces off the coast of Anzio were...
At the start of 1944, U.S. and British forces of the Allied VI Corps made another bold amphibious landing on the Italian shoreline. This one was near the western coastal cities of Anzio and Nettuno, located 35 miles south of Rome. The date for the landing was January...
