USS Anzio

"This is fire control aboard the USS Anzio. Defense squadrons be advised, we are engaging enemy aircraft at close range."

- Anzio officer

The USS Anzio is a Tinconderoga-class cruiser of the United States Navy. It is named after Anzio, Italy, site of an Allied invasion in World War II, named "Operation Shingle".

It is featured in "Akula", the final level of Ace Combat: Assault Horizon, where it assists the US military in defending Washington, D.C. from the New Russian Federation attack. During the battle, a rebel Flanker suicidally crashed into the Anzio's bridge, dealingheavy damage to the ship. Throughout the course of the level, it is hit by two morw kamikaze attacks, the third of which causes the ship to sink.