LSTs landing US troops at Anzio, 22 January 1944
(US Army Center for Military History)
70 Years Ago—Jan. 26,
1944: Landing ship LST-422
damaged by a mine off Anzio; of 700 aboard, 454 US soldiers & 29 British
sailors killed. Allied ships are ordered to
withdraw from the Anzio beachhead to reduce risk from air raid. Argentina
severs relations with Germany & Japan after a vast Axis spy
ring is uncovered in the country.
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