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The Battle of Anzio was a battle of the Italian Campaign of World War II that commenced January 22, 1944. The battle began with the Allied amphibious landing known as Operation Shingle , and ended on June 4, 1944, with the liberation of Rome .
10 March – The United States alleged that Ireland's neutrality was operating in favour of the Axis Powers during World War II. 13 March – Winston Churchill banned travel and communication between Britain and Ireland, north and south. [1] 22 March – The Cymric (Captain C. Cassidy) was lost between Ardrossan and Lisbon: 11 dead.
Anzio: The Friction of War. Italy and the Battle for Rome 1944. London: Headline Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-7553-1420-1. "Orders of Battle.com". Archived from the original on 17 July 2007; Houterman, Hans; Koppes, Jeroen. "World War II unit histories and officers". Archived from the original on 26 June 2007
During the Italian Campaign Barfoot participated in a series of amphibious landings: the Allied invasion of Sicily in July 1943, the invasion of mainland Italy at Salerno in September 1943, and finally the landings at Anzio in late January 1944. His unit pushed inland from Anzio, and by May 1944 had reached the small town of Carano in southern ...
German submarine U-177 was depth charged and sunk off Ascension Island in the South Atlantic by an American B-24.; Over the night of February 6/7 some 200 Soviet bombers attacked Helsinki, the heaviest bombing of the Finnish capital since the war began.
The Naples-Foggia Campaign concluded on 21 January 1944. The Battalion took part in the Anzio Campaign from 22 January 1944. The Anzio Campaign concluded on 24 May 1944. The battalion participated in the Rome-Arno Campaign from 22 January 1944. (Companies D and E disbanded 20 July 1944 in Italy) The Rome-Arno Campaign concluded on 9 September 1944.
The society received a grant of arms from the Chief Herald of Ireland in 2001. The activities of the society include two open meetings each month; the publication of a monthly newsletter, biannual journal and other occasional publications; the operation of an archive at the DLR Leisure Centre, Loughlinstown, County Dublin.
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