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Authors: Rick Atkinson

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Toffey, Anne

Toffey, Helen

Toffey, John, Jr.

Toffey, John, Sr.

Toffey, Lt. Col, John J. “Jack” III

Toffey, John IV

Tompkins, Peter

TORCH

Torrente Saraceni (Dead Man’s Gulch)

Tosca
(opera)

“total war”

Trafalgar, battle of

Trajan

Tregaskis, Richard

trench foot

Trevelyan, Lt. Raleigh

TRIDENT
conference

Tripoli

Troina

Truman, Harry S.

Truscott, Maj. Gen. Lucian K., Jr.

aftermath of Italian campaign and

background of

Cisterna and

death of Toffey and

DIADEM
and

HUSKY
and

Italian winter campaign and

liberation of Rome and

Memorial Day 1945 speech by

Rapido assault and

replaces Lucas to command VI Corps, at Anzio

SHINGLE
and

succeeds Clark to command Fifth Army

Truscott, Sarah Randolph

Tucker, Col. Reuben H.

Tuker, Maj. Gen. Francis

Tunis, battle of

Tunisia

FDR meets with Ike at

Tunisian campaign

TURTLE
, Operation

typhoid

 

U-boats

Uganda
, H.M.S.

Ultra intercepts

Ulysses

Umberto, Crown Prince of Italy

Unicorn
, H.M.S.

Union Army, Civil War

United Nations

United States

FDR’s vision of role of

postwar world and

war supplies provided to Britain

U.S. 1st Armored Division “Old Ironsides”

U.S. 1st Infantry Division “Big Red One”

U.S. 1st Ranger Battalion

U.S. 1st Special Service Force (SSF)

U.S. II Corps

U.S. 2nd Armored Division

U.S. 2nd Cavalry Division

U.S. 3rd Infantry Division

U.S. Third Army

U.S. IV Corps

U.S. Fifth Army

Anzio and

assessment of Italian campaign and

AVALANCHE
and

Cassino and

Clark appointed to command

Clark’s frictions with officers in

DIADEM
and

liberation of Rome and

Naples I&I and

Operations Instructions No. 24

Rapido and

song

Truscott replaces Clark as commander of

Winter Line and

U.S. 6th Armored Infantry Regiment

U.S. VI Corps

Field Order No. 20

U.S. Seventh Army

U.S. 7th Infantry Regiment

U.S. Eighth Air Force

U.S. 9th Infantry Division

U.S. 10th Mountain Division

U.S. 12th Weather Squadron

U.S. 13th Field Artillery Brigade

U.S. Fifteenth Air Force

U.S. 15th Infantry Regiment

U.S. 16th Infantry

U.S. 17th Bomber Group

U.S. 17th Field Artillery

U.S. 18th Infantry

U.S. 19th Combat Engineers

U.S. 26th Infantry Regiment

U.S. 30th Infantry Regiment

U.S. 34th Infantry Division

U.S. 36th Division

U.S. 39th Infantry Regiment

U.S. 45th Infantry Division (Thunderbirds)

U.S. 60th Infantry

U.S. 81st Armored Reconnaissance Battalion

U.S. 82nd Airborne Division

U.S. 83rd Chemical Mortar Battalion

U.S. 85th Division

U.S. 88th Division

U.S. 92nd Infantry Division

U.S. 93rd Infantry Division

U.S. 99th Fighter Squadron (Separate, Tuskeegee airmen)

U.S. 111th Medical Battalion

U.S. 132nd Field Artillery Battalion

U.S. 133rd Infantry Regiment

U.S. 135th Infantry Regiment

U.S. 141st Infantry Regiment

U.S. 142nd Infantry Regiment

U.S. 143rd Infantry Regiment

U.S. 151st Field Artillery

U.S. 157th Infantry Regiment

U.S. 158th Field Artillery Battalion

U.S. 168th Infantry Regiment

U.S. 179th Infantry Regiment

U.S. 180th Infantry Regiment

U.S. 189th Field Artillery Battalion

U.S. 191st Tank Battalion

U.S. 351st Infantry Regiment

U.S. 504th Parachute Infantry

U.S. 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment

U.S. 753rd Tank Battalion

U.S. 760th Tank Battalion

U.S. 6615th Ranger Force

U.S. 6681st Signal Pigeon Company

U.S. Army Air Forces

Tuskeegee airmen and

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

U.S. Army Medical Forms

U.S. Army Signal Corps

U.S. Congress

U.S. Force X

U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff

U.S. JOSS Force

U.S. Marine Corps

U.S. National Guard

U.S. Naval Institute

U.S. Navy

U.S. Ranger battalions

urban warfare

 

Valiant

Valletta

Valmontone

Van Doren, Carl

Vatican

Vaughan-Thomas, Wynford

Velletri

Venafro

venereal disease

Vera Cruz, assault of 1857

Verdala Palace

Verdun

Vesuvius

eruption of

Via Anziate

Via Rasella ambush

Vichy French

Victor Emmanuel III, King of Italy

Vietinghoff, Gen. Heinrich von

Virgil

Vita, Sgt. John

Vittoria

Vokes, Maj. Gen. Christopher

Volturno River

Vulcan
, H.M.S.

 

Walker, Maj. Gen. Fred L.

Wallace, Henry A.

Walpole, Horace

Walters, Vernon A.

War and Peace
(Tolstoy)

War Department

segregation of armed forces and

Warlimont, Gen. Walter

War Manpower Commission

war production

Germany

US

War Production Board

Warspite
, H.M.S.

Washington, D.C.

Washington Daily News

Washington Post

Washington Times-Herald

Waskow, Capt. Henry T.

Watson, Pa

Waugh, Evelyn

WEBFOOT
exercise

Welker, Robert H.

Welles, Orson

Wellington, Duke of

Wentzell, Maj. Gen. Fritz

West, Sgt. Horace T.

Western Front, WW I

Western Front, WW II

Westmoreland, Lt. Col. William C.

Westphal, Gen. Siegfried

What to Do Aboard the Transport

Whitehead, Don

Whittier, John Greenleaf

Wilbur, Brig. Gen. William H.

Wilbur, Richard

Wild Palms, The
(Faulkner)

Wilhelm, John M.

Wilhelm II, Kaiser of Germany

Wilhelmina, Queen of the Netherlands

William D. Porter
, U.S.S.

William the Bad

William the Good

Wilson, Field Marshal Henry Maitland “Jumbo”

Winter Line

Wolfe, Gen. James

Women’s Home Companion

Woodpecker (German army code)

World War I

World War II.
See also specific campaigns, operations, and places

blacks in U.S. Army and

brutality of total war grows

end of, foreseen by Churchill in Carthage

lessons of

maps of campaigns, and job and time needed to win

Wright, John G.

Wyatt, Lt. Col. Aaron A., Jr.

 

Yamamoto, Adm. Isokoru

Yellow Line

Ypres

Yugoslavia

 

Zama

Zetland
, H.M.S.

Zuckerman, Solly

Zuehlke, Mark

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

R
ICK
A
TKINSON
was a staff writer and senior editor at
The Washington Post
for more than twenty years. He is the best-selling author of
An Army at Dawn, The Long Gray Line
,
In the Company of Soldiers,
and
Crusade
. His many awards include Pulitzer Prizes for journalism and history. He lives in Washington, D.C.

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Library of Congress Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

Atkinson, Rick.
  The day of battle: the war in Sicily and Italy, 1943–1944 / Rick Atkinson.—1st ed.
    p. cm.—(The liberation trilogy; v. 2)
  Includes bibliographical references and index.
  ISBN: 978-0-8050-6289-2

1. World War, 1939–1945—Campaigns—Italy. 2. Italy—History, Military—1914–1945.
  I. Title.
  D763.I8A85 2007
  940.54'215—dc22
  2007007653

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