The Day of Battle (161 page)

Himmler, Heinrich

Hindman, Lt. Laura R.

Hitler, Adolf

Anzio and

campaign after fall of Rome and

cross-Channel invasion avoided by

DIADEM
and

gas warfare and

Italian surrender and

Kesselring and

Kursk offensive and

motives of

Mussolini and

reprisals and

retreat and

Salerno and

Sicily and

Soviet Union invaded by

Tunisia and

Winter Line and

Hitler Line

Hooks, Ranger

Hoover, J. Edgar

Hope, Bob

Hopkins, Harry

Horace

HORRIFIED

Horrocks, Lt. Gen. Brian

hospitals.
See also
medical care and medicine

15th Evacuation Hospital

23rd General Hospital

45th General Hospital

56th Evacuation Hospital

93rd Evacuation Hospital

95th Evacuation Hospital

98th General Hospital

Howard, Michael

Howze, Col. Hamilton H.

Huebner, Klaus H.

Huebner, Maj. Gen. Clarence R.

Hughes, Maj. Gen. Everett S.

Hungary

Hurtado, Ranger

HUSKY
.
See also
Sicily

airborne problems and

amphibious fleet gathered for

amphibious landings

Axis defense in early hours of

benefits and deficits of

Churchill and invasion of mainland after

decision and planning of Gela and

Ike at Malta for

Ike in Sicily and

inland push after landing

map of

Messina and

Patton and

preparations and plan for

topography and

Troina and

weather and

Huston, John

Hynes, Samuel

Ibis
(Italian corvette)

India

Indian 4th Division

Indian 8th Division

Indian 9th Gurkha Rifles

Indian Rajputana Rifles

Infantry Journal

Inferno
(Dante)

intelligence.
See also
Ultra

Allied

German

international law

Iowa
, U.S.S.

Iowa National Guard

Irish Guards

Ismay, Lt. Gen. Hastings

Isola Bella

Italian 1st Motorized Group

Italian XII Corps

Italian air force

Italian Aosta Division

Italian Assietta Division

Italian Brigade Group

Italian campaign.
See also specific battles, operations, and places

Ike’s assessment of

strategic mission of and value of

Italian Comando Supremo

Italian Fascist party

Italian Finance Ministry

Italian fleet

Italian forces

disarmed by Germans after armistice

HUSKY
and

surrender by, at Palermo

Italian Grand Council of Fascism

Italian Livorno Division

Italian Motorized Brigade Group

Italian navy

Italian partisans

Italian Red Cross

Italian refugees

Italian Social Republic

Italian winter campaign

Anzio landing to break, pushed by Churchill

assault on Cassino and Rapido River

Bari bombing and

Christmas and New Year’s in

Montgomery and Eight Army advance on Adriatic front

Monty replaced by Leese

Ortona

Patton in Sicily during

San Pietro and

stalemate of, and doubts about leadership

weather and

Italy.
See also
Italian winter campaign;
and specific battles, operations, and places

aftermath and assessment of campaign in

airpower and

Badoglio and surrender of

battles on side of Allies

campaign in, after fall of Rome

decision to press to mainland and

German reprisals in

German retreat in

Germany diverts forces to

Ike leaves, for
OVERLORD

Jews deported from

Mussolini ousted from power in

social disintegration in

topography of

TRIDENT
and decision to invade

weather and

Iwo Jima

Jackson, Gen. W.G.F.

Jackson, Stonewall

Jacob, Brig. Ian

Jamison, Lt. Clarence

Janus
, H.M.S.

Japan

Jefferson Bible

Jews

Jim Crow laws

Jodl, Gen. Alfred

John Bascom

John Harvey
, SS

John L. Motley

Jolson, Al

Joseph T. Dickman
, U.S.S.

Joseph Wheeler

Juergensen, Hans

Juin, Gen. Alphonse Pierre

Justinian

Juvenal

Kammerer, Col. Malcolm R.

Kappler, Lt. Col. Herbert

Kasserine Pass, battle of

Keats, John

Keegan, John

Keitel, Field Marshal Wilhelm

Kennan, George F.

Kennedy, David M.

Kennedy, Maj. Gen. John

Keough, Ranger

Keren
(former liner)

Kerwin, Walter T., Jr., “Dutch”

Kesselring, Field Marshal Albert

Anzio and

appointed supreme commander in Italy

art and

assessment of Italian campaign and

AVALANCHE
and

background of

campaign after fall of Rome and

DIADEM
and

Gustav Line and

HUSKY
and

Italian armistice announcement and German takeover of Italy

Messina and

Naples and

Rapido and

Rome and

supplies and

Winter Line and

Keyes, Maj. Gen. Geoffrey

Keynes, John Maynard

King, Adm. Ernest J.

King, Lt. Col. William E.

Kipling, Rudyard

Kippenberger, Brig. Howard K.

Kirby, Sgt. Billy

Kirkman, Lt. Gen. Sidney C.

Knight
, U.S.S.

Knights of Malta

Komer, Pvt. Robert W.

Korean War

Kuhl, Charles H.

Kursk

La Bohème
(opera)

LADBROOKE
, Operation

La Marsa, Tunisia

landing craft

“Landing Operations on Hostile Shores” (Army field manual)

Landry, Maj. Milton J.

Lang, Will

Langford, Frances

Lardner, John

Larrabee, Eric

La Saadia, Morocco

Lawrence, D.H.

LCI 32

LCIs (landing craft, infantry)

LCTs (landing craft, tank)

League of Nations

Leahy, Adm. William D.

Lee, Gen. Robert E.

Leese, Gen. Oliver W. H.

Lee’s Lieutenants
(Freeman)

LEHRGANG
, Operation

Lemelsen, Gen. Joachim

Lemnitzer, Brig. Gen. Lyman L.

Lend-Lease program

Leningrad, battle of

Leonardo da Vinci

Lercara Friddi

Lewin, Ronald

Lewis, Norman

Liberty ships

Libya

Licata

Liebenstein, Capt. Gustav von

Liebling, A. J.

Life

Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth, The

Life of Jesus
(Ricciotti)

“Lili Marlene” (song)

Lincoln, Abraham

Liri Valley

Littorio rail yards

Livy

Lombards

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Longstop Hill

looters

Loren, Sophia

Louis Hennepin
, SS

Louis IX, King of France

Low Countries

LSIs (landing ship, infantry)

LST 313

LST 336

LST 357

LST 365

LST 375

LST 379

LST 386

LST 422

LST 430

LSTs (landing ship)

Lucas, Maj. Gen. John Porter

Ludendorff, Gen. Erich

Ludlum, Capt. David M.

L
UDLUM
, Operation

Lwów
(Polish freighter)

Lynch, Col. George E.

MacArthur, Gen. Douglas

Mackensen, Gen. Eberhard von

Macmillan, Harold

Madama Butterfly
(opera)

Maddox
, U.S.S.

Maher, Marty

Maidstone
, H.M.S.

Majdalany, Fred

malaria

Malta

Maltese Falcon, The
(film)

Mälzer, Lt. Gen. Kurt

Mariana Islands

Mark IV Tiger tanks

Mark V Panther tanks

Marlborough, Duke of

Marne, battle of

Marrakesh, Churchill recuperates and plans Anzio in

Marsh, Corp. Robert M.

Marshall, Gen. George C.

Allen and Ted Roosevelt relieved of command and

Anzio and

AVALANCHE
and

Cairo conferences and

Churchill and

Clark and

death of stepson and

HUSKY
and

Ike and

Italian Cassibile agreement and

Italian mainland decision and

LADBROOKE
and

Lucas replaced by Truscott and

OVERLORD
and

Patton and

Rangers disbanded by

Ridgway and

Rome and

segregation of armed forces and

TRIDENT
and

Marshall, Katherine

Martin, Col. William H.

Martin, Sgt. Ralph G.

Masia, Don Aristide

Matthew, St.

Matthews, Herbert

Mauldin, Sgt. Bill

Maupassant, Guy de

Mayo
, U.S.S.

McClellan, Gen. George B.

McCreery, Lt. Gen. Richard L.

McLain, Brig. Gen. Raymond S. “Ray”

McNair, Lt. Gen. Lesley J.

Meade, George

medical care and medicine.
See also
hospitals

Mediterranean Allied Air Forces

Medjez-el-Bab battle

Meitzel, Capt. Helmut

Memorial Day 1945

Menelaus

Menninger, Brig. Gen. William C.

Meredith, Burgess

Mertz, George

Messerschmitts ME-109 aircraft

Messina

Allies cross Strait of, in B
AYTOWN

Germans evacuate

Michelangelo

Middleton, Drew

Middleton, Maj. Gen. Troy H.

Mignano Gap

Miller, Maj. Alvah H.

Miller, Glenn

Milligan, Spike

MINCEMEAT
, Operation

mines

Missionary Ridge, battle of (1863)

Mitchell, Willis

Mitchum, Robert

Mizzi, M.

Molinero, Gen. Giuseppe

Molony, C.J.C.

Molotov, Vyacheslav

Monrovia
, U.S.S.

Monte Artemisio breakthrough

Monte Camino (Murder Mountain)

Monte Cassino abbey

bombing of

DIADEM
and

DICKENS
and

postwar

Monte Cassino in the Middle Ages
(Bloch)

Monte Cipolla

Montecorvino airfield

Monte la Difensa

Monte Lungo

Monte Rotondo

Monte Sammucro

Monte Trocchio

Montgomery, Gen. Bernard Law

AVALANCHE
and

Background and leadership style of

Bari and

BAYTOWN
and

HUSKY
and, vs. Patton

Italian winter campaign and

leaves Italy for
OVERLORD

Messina evacuation and

Moorehead, Alan

Moran, Lord

Morison, Samuel Eliot

MORNING GLORY
attack

Morton, H. V.

Mosier, Corp. Ben W.

Mountbatten, Adm. Lord Louis

Mowat, Farley

MPs

Mr. Lucky
(film)

Muggeridge, Malcolm

Muirhead, John

mules

Murphy, Audie Leon

Murphy, Robert (diplomat)

Mussolini, Benito A. A. “Il Duce”

arrest of

background of