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.
Operation Shingle invasion convoy during Operation Shingle in World War 2. Opening scene shows view from a U. S. Destroyer showing a transport ship with several Higgins boats in water nearby, and some small invasion boats in distance. View from the Destroyer, close to land, as a lancing craft (Higgins Boat) passes in rough water. Next, Sailors on the Destroyer position a battery of 5 torpedo tubes into firing position on her deck. View from underneath the torpedo tubes, with a line of landing craft seen in distance. Sailors man an anti-aircraft gun on deck. Officer looks through binoculars. Several officers look through binoculars. Two sailors discuss a knife held by one. Warships seen in distant background. Sailors maneuver twin Bofors 40m anti-aircraft auto cannons. Destroyer's guns firing.
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.
Operation Shingle in Anzio Italy during World War II. Allied soldiers lay wire matting on a beach. Vehicles and tanks drive off a pontoon dock onto the beach. Troops on a tank. The tank being unloaded. Troops and equipment unloaded from a landing craft. The soldiers carry guns on their back. The vehicles are drive off the pontoon dock. Insignia of the United States on the vehicles. A jeep towed with a truck and taken ashore. A soldier eats food. Allied soldiers in a amphibious truck DUKW . Troops in DUKW enter the waters from a Landing Ship Tank and head for the shore.
Operation Shingle in Anzio Italy during World War II (Battle of Anzio). Allied troops unload ammunition and stack it near a wall on a beach. Buildings in the background. A Landing Ship Tank on the beach. Trucks tow artillery off a pontoon dock into the water. The troops on the trucks. The artillery taken ashore.
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.