Activities of United States Navy salvage units on beachhead Anzio, Italy. United States sailor exits dugout with sandbag wall. A pup comes out of his own small dugout. A group of sailors erects sign board that reads 'Los Angeles 8000 miles'. Shell bursts in the background and sailors lie down on ground. Pun in sandbag dugout. Beach area with water front.
Activities of United States Navy salvage units on beachhead, Anzio, Italy. Vehicles move on a street of bombed Anzio. Ships moored on water front. View of the city in the background. People on the street. Damaged buildings in the city. (World War II period).
Activities of United States Navy salvage units on beachhead, Anzio, Italy during World War 2. 90 mm guns camouflaged at Army installations. Dugouts and tents in camp area. United States troops wash clothes in front of tents. Army cook rings dinner gong. Sailors stand in line for food. They sit at table in open area and eat their food. Sailors lay rifles and guns on table over a white cloth. Humorous sign at dining table says "Los Angeles city limits."
Wrecked Allied equipment in Anzio, Italy during world War II. Hood of an Allied Army jeep with an insignia and bullet holes in it. Much of the jeep has been stripped for parts. An overturned Bren gun carrier with large holes in the bottom, again stripped of usable parts. A wrecked gun carrier. A British soldier with a tire that was torn by a shrapnel.
British soldiers at a beachhead in Anzio, Italy during World War II. A British soldier of 2nd Brigade of 1st Division digs a bivouac hole. Another soldier relaxes as he drinks from a bottle of beer and then passes it to the man digging the fox hole. The soldiers drink from the bottle and continue to dig the hole. Soldiers cut logs of wood with hammer and place them across the top upon the completion of the hole. A soldier stands in the hole. A soldier works with a shovel. A tent in the background. A soldier in the hole with crates around it. A sign near the dugout reads ' Hotel Picadilly'.
Allied troops head towards Anzio, Italy during World War II. A sailor aboard an LST( Landing Ship Tank) as he signals a blinker light. A wounded soldier being brought aboard an LST as he lies on a stretcher. Smoke rises near the beach of Anzio. Food in containers aboard the LST. U.S. Military trucks , jeeps and other vehicles unload from an LST and move onto a pontoon pier and onto the beach.