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 bigpigeon.us webpage  WWII Germany > The MTO > Cassino/Anzio to Rome, © 2025 by Robert A. Christiansen, updated by RAC 27 Oct 2025
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Big Pigeon's Cassino/Anzio to Rome pages cover 1944 combat on the Italian Peninsula from the beginning of the Allies' Operation Diadem on 11 May through the occupation of Rome on 4 June.​​

• The Gustav Line Breakthrough and the Anzio Beachhead Breakout (11–25 May)
• The Drive on Rome (26 May–4 Jun)
• Italy, OrBat, May '44

           ██  Sources for Big Pigeon's WWII Germany > The MTO > Cassino/Anzio to Rome webpage  ██

(Needs editing and distribution to subpages as it was copied from the old Naples to Rome webpage)

• ​The Naples to Rome Background map, https://www.londonirishrifles.com/index.php/regimental-history/significant-events-from-our-history/garigliano-river-january-1944/

•  The Italian Campaign - The German Defensive Lines map - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_Line#/media/File:ItalyDefenseLinesSouthofRome1943_4.jpg.

Wikipedia's campaign webpages:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Anzio
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Monte_Cassino​ - the four battles of Monte Cassino
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Diadem - fourth Battle of Monte Cassino

US Army Center for Military History campaign brochures for WWII campaigns in Italy:​​​

• Anzio 1944, https://history.army.mil/brochures/anzio/72-19.htm​

​US Army Center for Military History histories of WWII in Italy:

• Salerno to Cassino, https://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USA/USA-MTO-Salerno/index.html
• Cassino to the Alps, https://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USA/USA-MTO-Cassino/index.html#index​

Italian campaign maps:​

• https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/cnuu47/the_italian_front_ww2_us_uk_forces_highlighted/#lightbox
• https://custermen.com/Maps/MapGustav.jpg

Other maps:

• ​https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Atlas_of_the_World_Battle_Fronts_in_Semimonthly_Phases_to_August_15_1945​

Other sources:

• https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1agzlz7/benedictine_abbey_in_monte_cassino_italy/#lightbox​

​(Needs editing and distribution to subpages as it was copied from the old Cassino 4 to Rome webpage)

• Cassino to the Alps (scalable maps) (United States Army in World War II, Mediterranean Theater of Operations series, Ernest F. Fisher Jr., 1989, CMH #6-4) - http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USA/USA-MTO-Cassino/index.html.
• The webpage header image Rome 5 Jun '44 is courtesy of the World War II Museum in New Orleans, LA. It shows General Mark Clark, who commanded the US 5th Army in Italy, in Rome just after liberation.
• The Order of Battle Overview, 10 May 1944 map is courtesy of the New Zealand website, http://tothosewhoserved.org/nz/army/nzarmy08/chapter01.html. On this date, New Zealand forces were part of the British X/10th Corps northeast of Cassino.
• The Operation Diadem - Advance Past the Gustav Line and Liberation of Rome maps by Gene Thorp are taken from Rick Atkinson's The Day of Battle.
• The Breakout from Anzio - the First Three Days map is courtesy of battlearchives.com.