Lucian K. Truscott, Jr. Papers - The George C. Marshall Foundation

Biographical Sketch (continued)
On January 22, 1944, as part of the VI Corps under General John P.
Lucas, the 3rd Division assaulted the beach at Anzio. In February
Truscott succeeded Lucas in command of the VI Corps. After withstanding
furious German counterattacks the VI Corps finally broke out of the
Anzio beachhead in May and drove toward Rome.
After rest and retraining, the VI Corps, then consisting of the
3rd, 36th, and 45th divisions, formed part of General Alexander
M. Patch's Seventh Army in the landings at St. Tropez and St. Raphael
on the French south coast on August 15. Promoted to temporary lieutenant
general in September, Truscott remained with the VI Corps until December,
when he returned to Italy to take command of the Fifjth Army from
General Mark W. Clark. Under his command the Fifth, part Clark's
15th Army Group, launched a final major attack in the spring of 1945
across the Po valley, taking Bologna on April 21 and driving on until
the German surrender of May 2. The Fifth Army was inactivated in
October 1945 and Truscott then succeeded General Patton in command
of the Third Army in occupation duty in Bavaria. He returned to the
United States in May 1946 and retired from the army in October 1947.
In May 1951 he was named an adviser to the U.S. high commissioner for
West Germany. In 1954 he published Command Missions, and in July of
that year he was given an honorary promotion to general, retired, by
act of Congress. Truscott died in Washington, D.C., on September 12,
1965.
From Webster's American Military Biographers.