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Rome Fell Today

Sunday, June 4 [1944], was a day so crammed with confusion, drama, and historic high-water marks that even now there is no one source which can accurately state, "This is the way it happened and this is the order of events.

It is still impossible, for example, to say with certainty who was the first in Rome. There were so many task forces and spearheads reaching toward the city, all shifting from one highway to another as resistance developed, that sometimes they actually crossed over into another's line of advance. Official credit has been given to an 88th Division reconnaissance platoon, but its commander, Major General John E. Sloan, admits that the platoon wasn't strong enough to maintain its position inside the city limits. "It's quite probable that the First Special Service Force [Brigadier General Robert Frederick] beat us in strength. However, we followed them very closely, and in our race there with the Special Service Force, we actually collided and had a little fire fight due to misunderstanding between the two forces."

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