Some folks should get their history from places other than Franklin Schaffner productions...
Your comic book view of history does have it's limitations, how about the official Army History? Its the deed(s) not the PR and colorful pictures that promotes it.
NOTE: SHINGLE was commanded by GENERAL JOHN P. LUCAS, I guess its an easy mistake to make since they both have L-U-C in their name.uhoh:
Early in World War II he joined Lord Mountbatten's combined staff where he developed the Ranger units for special operations. He led his Rangers in combat at Dieppe and in Morocco and then began his assent through the various levels of major combat command.
Promoted to the rank of major general, Truscott led the Northern Attack Group in the assault of Morocco in November 1942. Truscott also took part in the invasion of Tunisia where he was Eisenhower's field deputy.
During the Italian campaign Truscott led the 3rd Division at Salerno, Cassino and Anzio. Truscott replaced General John Lucas as head of the 6th Corps and led the troops that entered Rome on 4th June 1944.
Considered to be an expert on amphibious warfare, Truscott directed planning and training for the invasion of France by the 7th Army. Landing on 15th August 1944 he moved north and after crossing the Moselle River he headed for the Rhine River.
Truscott replaced General Mark Clark at commander of the 5th Army on 16th December 1944. He succeeded George Patton as 3rd Army commander and military governor of Bavaria in September 1945.
Operation Shingle (January 22, 1944), during World War II, involved an Allied naval assault against Axis forces in the area of Anzio and Nettuno, Italy. The operation was commanded by GENERAL JOHN P. LUCAS and was intended to outflank German forces of the Gustav Line and enable an attack on Rome.
Underrated
Lucian Truscott is similarly obscure. Truscott’s promotions came even faster than Brereton’s, and he commanded in battle at every echelon from regiment to field army. During this war the infantry divisions were the hard core of American military power on the ground, and among their commanders were some of the very best soldiers America put into the field. Lucian Truscott was arguably the best American division commander in the war, and for him it was a long war indeed, stretching from Morocco and Tunisia through Sicily to mainland Italy—two amphibious assaults there, at Salerno and at Anzio—and to southern France, where he took VI Corps up the Rhone Valley. He took over the 5th Army in Italy late in 1944 and finished the war with a campaign against desperate German resistance in the Po Valley. Not one of his campaigns could have been called easy; his troops fought their way over some of the worst terrain and against some of the most determined enemy the European theater had to offer.
Truscott was raised as a cavalry officer. He had wit and dash and a talent to lead, a fine mind, and a ready pen. After the war he wrote one of the best memoirs by any American fighting general, Command Missions. But in a miscarriage of history, he has disappeared from the view of all but the most serious students of the war.
GENERAL LUCIAN K. TRUSCOTT, JR. (1895-1965), is still regarded by many as the most outstanding US. Army combat commander in World War II.
