
LSTs landing US troops at Anzio, 22 January 1944 (US Army Center of Military History)
75 Years Ago—Jan. 26, 1944: British 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 raids.
Argentina severs relations with Germany and Japan after a vast Axis spy ring is uncovered in the country.