A U.S. 3rd Division soldiers training in Anzio area, Italy during World War II. A wrecked Italian tank in a field. A grenade explosion near the tank throws billows of smoke up in the air. The soldiers advance through the field and fire rifles. Grenade explosions near the tank. A soldier runs on a hillside.
German air attacks on U.S. ships at Anzio harbor, Italy during World War II. Tracers chase a German aircraft. Bursts on water. A U.S. gun crew fires at the German aircraft. The aircraft falls over Anzio in flames.
Operation Shingle (invasion of Anzio, Italy) during World War 2. View from underneath a gun position aboard a U.S. Destroyer in an invasion convoy of Operation Shingle (Anzio, Italy) during World War 2. Camera pans underneath multiple torpedo tubes. Officer in battle gear looks toward the sky with binoculars. One of the Destroyer's guns fires. View down from upper deck shows many expended naval gun shell casings on main deck. Small boats seen in far distance. Several landing craft seen closer in a line followed by a Destroyer Escort. The destroyer's guns firing and raising clouds of smoke. More views of spent shell casings on deck. Sailors in combat gear and life preservers taking a nap on deck. Sailors examining some of the spent shell casings. Camera pans up to the Destroyer's bridge, showing a gun and American flag flying just above it. Large group of sailors looking over the piles of spent shell casings on the deck. A Mahan Dunlop Class destroyer seen nearby. Sailors looking through binoculars. Glimpse of enemy aircraft maneuvering high overhead.Glimpse of Anzio shoreline in distance.
Wrecked Allied equipment in Anzio, Italy during world War II. A shell strafed ambulance as a soldier points at shell marks on the vehicle. A burned out ammunition truck. A soldier puts his fingers in a shrapnel hole in a wrecked British jeep.
Landing operations in Anzio, Italy during World War II. Allied ships underway at sea off the coast of Anzio. Troops and vehicles aboard a ship. A two and a half ton amphibious truck heads for a beach. An Allied ship in the background. Landing crafts loaded with troops pull away from ships towards the beach. Different types of landing crafts in the Anzio harbor. A barrage balloon in flight. An LSM ( Landing Ship Mechanized) lands on the beach after a bomb hit and smoke rises from it.
Landing operations in Anzio, Italy during World War II. Allied soldiers aboard an LST ( Landing Ship Tank). The soldiers eat sandwiches and drink coffee. They eat aboard the LST before landing at a coast.