U.S. troops in Italy during World War II. The troops in Naples. Buildings along the sides of a street. Soldiers aboard military vehicles passing on a road. The troops at a dock. Ships and landing crafts are loaded with equipment. U.S. Army troops aboard ships and landing crafts. They leave Naples and head towards Anzio. Barrage balloons in flight overhead. A man standing near a blinker light aboard a ship. U.S. Army officers discussing strategies over maps. U.S. Army soldier reads a newspaper. A landing craft goes ashore. Trucks, tanks and other equipment being unloaded. German airplanes in flight overhead. They drop bombs over a convoy. Smoke arises as some of the ships explode. U.S. soldiers firing guns from the ships towards the airplanes. The airplanes flying in formation. Bomb damaged buildings in the area. Smoke from bombardment and firing. Soldiers firing anti-aircraft guns. Wrecked vehicles and equipment on the field. Ships underway at sea.
Allied troops attack Japanese bases in New Guinea. Australian jungle troops cover difficult to climb terrain, hauling supplies by manpower alone. New Zealand troops in snow covered Italian Alps. The Army troops from New Zealand wear white camouflage coverings in the snow terrain, and advance up mountain terrain. Aerial view of beach area at Anzio, Italy. U.S. Army forces escort capture German troops who continue to surrender. Some include Nazi troops from the Hermann Goering division. view of German Prisoners of War as they receive medical care for minor and major injuries. American nurses arrive in Anzio and tend the wounded. A German aircraft attacking Allies in Anzio is shot down and the German warplane plunges toward the ground trailing smoke. View of U.S. Army personnel examining the wreckage of a German plane that crash landed in Italy.
A U.S. Destroyer during Operation Shingle (Allied invasion of Anzio, Italy) during World War 2. Opening scene shows a U.S. Mahan Dunlap Class destroyer anchored near the camera ship. View on lower deck of camera ship ( a U.S. Destroyer) shows netting containing spent naval gun shell casings. Upper deck of the Destroyer showing stowed inflated rubber rafts, A davit for launching boats, and some boats stored on the deck. Crew members in battle gear including steel helmets. Some of the Destroyer's guns in the background. The guns fire and create smoke clouds. View from underneath a gun. Sailors are seen in a boat suspended from a davit. They descend a rope ladder to the Destroyer deck. Next, a boat is seen heading away from the ship, with 4 sailors in it. View from bridge of American flag flying low over ship's gun position. Boat underway in the water.
Views from a U.S. Destroyer, one of the warships supporting Operation Shingle (invasion of Anzio, Italy) during World War 2. View from bridge as Destroyer fires her guns. Heavy black smoke rising from two Allied ships bombed by enemy aircraft. Another view of the Destroyer's guns firing. A bomb bursting in distance. A formation of enemy aircraft seen momentarily overhead. Dense black smoke rising from bombed ship nearby. Two burning convoy ships in distance.
Rest and relaxation services for soldiers provided by the United Service Organizations (USO) in Italy during World War II. In Anzio, Italy: U.S. Army soldiers do comic diving at a swimming pool during a water carnival. A man performs a serious dive, and then a clown performs a humourous dive from the high diving board. People watch the event. Men dressed as women (men in drag) during a bathing beauty contest. The men dressed as women and wearing makeup pass by. One is dressed like Mae West but smoking a cigar. The soldiers hold a casual rodeo event riding a bull and a horse until they are bucked off. Men and women at a beach. A man and a woman enjoy in water. In a USO club, soldiers suffering battle fatigue get a break and rest. Soldiers listen to a fellow soldier at a piano, as they sing. A soldier writes on a paper. Soldiers play cards, read and do other activities. Soldiers attend a dance with women brought in by the USO. Soldiers read in a U.S. Army library. Books and magazines on a table including many small pocket editions of popular books of the era.
Allied troops head towards Anzio, Italy during World War II. LST -358 (Landing Ship Tank) underway in the Mediterranean Sea with U.S. General William Campbell and Colonel Karl F. Glos on the bridge of the LST. The two officers talk to each other. General Campbell, Colonel Glos and the Captain of the LST F.E. Clerk look at a map. A chaplain conducts catholic services aboard the LST. Soldiers with their heads lowered as they pray during the service.