Operation Shingle was the Allied amphibious landing at Anzio and Nettuno, Italy, to outflank German defenses (the Gustav Line); it began on 22 January 1944 and the larger Anzio/Anzio–Nettuno campaign lasted through spring–early summer 1944 (major dates commonly cited: 22 Jan–May/June 1944).
The Sicily‑Rome American Cemetery is located at Piazzale Kennedy, Nettuno (just east of Anzio), Italy; it commemorates U.S. service members who died in the World War II campaigns in Sicily, Salerno and the advance northward, the Anzio–Nettuno landings and related air/naval operations, and it also memorializes those missing on the Tablets of the Missing.
The Jan. 2026 82nd‑anniversary ceremony at Sicily‑Rome American Cemetery included U.S. and Italian dignitaries and military participation; speakers and attendees named in ABMC coverage included ABMC Superintendent Mark Ireland, U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See Brian F. Burch II, Deputy Chief of Mission to Italy Marta Costanzo Youth, Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani, the mayors of Anzio and Nettuno, and U.S. European Command Chief of Staff Maj. Gen. John L. Rafferty; U.S. Naval Forces Europe/Africa Band and local Italian military and students also participated.
The Sicily‑Rome American Cemetery contains 7,845 American war dead interred there (ABMC figure); the site also lists 3,095 names on the Tablets of the Missing.
Yes. ABMC and its Sicily‑Rome staff regularly hold anniversary and commemorative ceremonies (including the Jan. 2026 82nd‑anniversary event); these observances are organized by the American Battle Monuments Commission in coordination with U.S. diplomatic and military partners and local Italian authorities and organizations.