Key Information
Reference code
PENNEY 15/12
Title
Letter from Colonel Desmond Fitzpatrick, 8 Mar 1949, with criticism of accounts of the Anzio landings
Date(s)
- 1949 Mar 8 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent
1p
Scope and content
Typescript letter from Col G R Desmond Fitzpatrick, Staff College, Camberley, Surrey, to Penney, giving recollections on Allied landings at Anzio, Italy, and disagreeing with comments made by Maj Gen Ernest N Harmon, Commander, 1 US Armoured Div, during Allied landings at Anzio, Italy, in articles in The Saturday Evening Post (USA), 18 Sep 1948 - 9 Oct 1948. 1p.