 Nyorai kuenderera mberi kwechikamu chino - Musi wa4 Zvita divi raPenney rakabva kuNorth Africa richienda kuItaly uye rakasvika ikoko mazuva matatu gare gare, pakutanga kuti risimbise Hondo yeMontgomery yeChisere. Zvisinei, yakakurumidza kuendeswa kuAmerican Fifth Army yaLieutenant General Mark W. Clark, ichiuya pasi pehutungamiri hweMajor General John P. Lucas weUS VI Corps, mukugadzirira Operation Shingle. Pakazosvika December 1943 Mauto eAllied muItaly AAI, akaumbwa nemauto eAmerica Fifth neBritish Eighth Armies, aitungamirirwa naGeneral Alexander, akanga akabatwa pamberi pemidziyo yeWinter Line, makiromita 80 kumaodzanyemba kweRome. Operation Shingle, yakafungidzirwa naGeneral Alexander, yaizoburitsa Lucass Anglo-American VI Corps mune amphibious operation kuguta rechiteshi cheAnzio, kuseri kwemutsara wechiGerman, uyo waimhanya kubva kuMonte Cassino kusvika pamuromo weRwizi Garigliano, uye kutora vadziviriri veGerman kubva kuWinter Line kuti vatarisana netyisidziro nyowani paAnzio, zvichigonesa zvikamu zveClarks Fifth Army kupwanya paCassino, kutyaira nemupata weLiri uye kubatana neVI Corps kuAnzio. Chikamu chaPenney chaizouya pasi pekutungamira kwaLucass US VI Corps, iyo yaisanganisirawo US 1st Armored uye 3rd Infantry Divisions pasi peMajor General Ernest N. Harmon naLucian Truscott, zvichiteerana, vakatsigirwa neBritish Commandos neUS Army Rangers, 504th Parachute Regimental Combat Team 504th PRCT, pamwe nezvikamu zveBritish 23rd Armored Brigade, uye mashandiro acho aifanira kuitika musi wa22 Ndira 1944. 